Life and Light Came Down

 John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

God knows how slow we are to get it.  John, writing many years after the other Gospel writers, zooms out from the couple in the stable to a heavenly perspective to show us what it looks like from God's viewpoint. He was sending His Son with life and light into our dark world to show us the way back to Him. He had been watching for centuries, fully concerned with His creation, seeing the darkness spread and the curse of sin take its toll.  He was giving the light and night we needed, watching to see how He would be received. His impact was and still is greater than any meteor, and is yet what was needed then is now needed all the more.