The one among us whom we do not recognize

John the Baptist summarizes the people's response to God's epiphany in the person of Jesus: There is one among you whom you do not recognize.
John the Evangelist takes it even one step further: He came to his own and his own people did not accept him.
God comes to our world still, in many and varied ways. But often we cannot recognize God because we have our own expectations of how this God should be.
Perhaps we ought to remember that God, since he is God, totally defies our categories, boxes and boundaries.