Luke 2:12 Meaning This Is the Sign to You

The babe in the manger works as a sign, and a sign points past itself to something already done. Here it points to God, spiritually born inside you, within the skull of ordinary man. The infant is the evidence that this inner birth has happened, the way a small thing left behind tells you a delivery took place. Swaddling clothes and a feeding trough say nothing about humble beginnings. They stand as the plain proof shown to the shepherds so they would know. The promise had come to pass. God, the living center of all things, was now awake inside a human being, and that human being carried the whole meaning of the sign.