Condescendation and Christmas

Whenever you hear the word "condensation", the view point is usually negative. But if you look at one of the meanings in the dictionary (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/condescend?s=t), it gives us the following:
"to put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior"

There are a couple of thoughts that one can get from that definition in relation to this time of the year-The first is where you see "to put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily"...voluntarily coming from "voluntary" which is defined as "acting or done without compulsion or obligation" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/voluntary?s=t)
Just think about that in relation to Jesus, he came down here to early acting without compulsion (meaning that the Father didn't have to force Him to have to come down to earth) or obligation (I don't Jesus ever said to the Father "You owe me one". He came down to earth because He wanted to, not because He had to. He knew that because of our sin, that there was no other way for us to get to the Father and basically "volunteered" to become the sacrifice for our sin. But think about what that entailed...coming to earth as an embryo in the womb of Mary, being born, living a life with Joseph and Mary, and then a nomadic life which ended on a cross....the closest that I could get to comprehending that was in Rich Mullins' song "Boy like me, man like You" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVqQED51XD8 

Which leads me to the second part of the definition: "assume equality with one regarded as inferior"...just think about that....no matter how smart, rich, good-looking, etc...one may be (male or female), none of us will ever get anywhere near the majesty of God...if you don't believe that, just look outside some evening and look at the stars and think about how vast the sky is and that what we are seeing is just a portion of what is in the universe and that is under the control of one even more vast than that! Unless someone someday finds a way to create a literal universe, we will always be inferior to the Lord, and as our superior, He could have kept Heaven forever out of reach, but yet He showed His love in such a way that He came down to Earth and became "equal" with us. By coming down to earth, He went through all of the things, physical and mental, that we as humans go through. 
And all that to give His life as a sacrifice...so that we could get to Heaven and live all of eternity with the Father...words just don't describe all this...

So as you get together with your family this Christmas, something for thought..."condensation" doesn't have to be a bad thing...and if Jesus came down to Earth to become as one of us...I hope that we who are His children and called to be like Him, that it inspires us to maybe "condescend" to others that we come in contact with.....