“We have even more long lasting joy because as we look at the cradle of Bethlehem, we do so through the cross of Calvary.
Baby Jesus held by the wood of a cradle, later is held to the wood of a cross.
Delivered and delivering.
Jesus held by the wood.
Witnesses on either side.
Mary stood waiting,
quietly gazing,
with great feeling,
on her Son.
The sky dark above.
As at the beginning,
so at the end.
Jesus held by the wood,
delivered and delivering.
Jesus held by the wood.
The scene of Christmas and of Calvary.
Of the cradle and the cross.”
–Mark Dever, The Christmas Thingamabob (Leyland, England: 10Publishing, 2013), 25-26.
