You can tell someone: "take care, stay warm, be safe", and not really DO anything to make that more likely, just express the sentiment. If you say that to family or friends, they might know that you mean it and would help them, if someday they were really up against it and needed a hand. But if you said that to a homeless person who didn't know you, what good is expressing the sentiment? Taking action is what they need from you.
You can also tell someone you love them and care about them, but.. wouldn't the experience of it from you be better, more impactful? Of course, if you have a history of showing them tangibly what that love and care looks like, well, then .. they know already, and can have confidence that you mean it.
So, did God have a history of showing love and care to humankind, esp. to His chosen people, His covenant family? We can debate that all day long, I suppose. But if there was ever any doubt about it, God erased that doubt at Christmas, because on that day He put our skin on, and moved in with us.
"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel [God with us] ... For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 7:14 & 9:6
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:1, 14
God isn't all talk and no action. And because of that we can say:
God rest ye merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay!
Remember: Christ our saviour was born on Christmas day!
(To save us all from Satan's power when we had gone astray.)
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy! Oh, tidings of comfort and joy!
God does indeed love and care for us. He showed it in the flesh.
Merry Christmas!
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