- E. Stanley Jones - Monday, October 31, 2005 Not that it is anywhere close to Christmas (although a walk through any mall would lead you think otherwise) the following thoughts of E. Stanley Jones transcened Christmas time. "We want our Father to step out of the impersonal picture and meet us as a person. The human heart is personal and wants a personal response... 'Why do we need a personal God?" someone asks. Well, suppose you go to a child crying for its mother and say, "Don't cry, little child; I"m giving to you the principle of motherhood.' Would the tears dry and the face light up? Hardly. The child would brush aside your principle of motherhood and cry for its mother. We all want, not a principle nor a picture, but a person. The Father has stepped out of the picture. The Word became flesh. That is the meaning of Christmas. Jesus is Immanuel- God with us."

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