work, it is only because he has given you life and breath and everything. All we can do is submit to his spectacular offer to be our servant. And this submission is called faith—a willingness to let him be God. Trust him to be the Supplier, the Strengthener, the Counselor, the Guide, the Savior. And be satisfied with that—with all that God is for us in Jesus. That’s what faith is. And having that is what it means to be a Christian. Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not