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The Christmas story is so familiar to many of us that we can miss the nuance of the story, the scandal of the story, and the opportunity to see God in a special and profound way. People throughout the Bible had an expectation of the Savior who was to come, but He chose to come in obscurity, and by doing so defied their expectation. The genealogy of Jesus is scandalous in itself, and then there is the virgin conception, Joseph secretly planning to divorce his wife, Mary’s 70-mile journey on a donkey while very pregnant, and the feeding trough for sheep and goats that they lay the baby Jesus in. Yet God came the way He did intentionally. He humbled Himself to come into the stench of this world in the shadiest of circumstances so we can relate to Him, and understand He came for people just like us – the imperfect, the lowly, the lost.