This ceramic set shows each figure as a child.
The set (and each figure individually) is incredibly cute.
I love a number of things about this set:
Each figure has such wide, expectant and joyful eyes. The awe-inspiring event they have come to witness demands wide, attentive eyes. Knowing that they were looking at the King who could save them (and the rest of the world) from sin…could only result in joy.
Each figure is a child: revealing that we are all God’s children. We love to try to be grown up, to be certified, to be qualified – but at the heart, we are children… children of God.
We are also the children of our parents…while we try to be independent, our position in family and society is relative (and influenced by) our family of origin. For better or worse, it affects how we experience and interact with the world around us.
These figures remind us that no matter how we see the world, Jesus has made it possible for us to know Him. Just like the figures witnessing the most powerful scene of Christmas – they all saw the events from a different perspective.
From the working class reluctantly giving an animal shelter, to the lower class following an angels directions to the highest class sacrificing all to come and honour the One in the trough, we all come to Jesus in different ways.
Obviously the focus of the scene is a child, a baby. Son of God and Son of Mary, this helpless babe was (and is) the most powerful being in the universe. But He desires for us to be His children. For ever. Amazing!
May we respond to Him appropriately: as people who need a Saviour, servants willing to serve our Master but are willing to follow Him as children.
