The Incarnation: "the more unbelievers pour scorn on Him, so much the more does He make His Godhead evident."

St. Athanasius in his On the Incarnation of the Word of God begins with a bang. It is through rejection and scorn that Jesus makes God evident. It is through suffering and being ignored that, through the Cross, Jesus reveals himself to those with eyes to see ... 

Now, Macarius, true lover of Christ, we must take a step further in the faith of our holy religion, and consider also the Word's becoming Man and His divine Appearing in our midst. That mystery the Jews traduce, the Greeks deride, but we adore; and your own love and devotion to the Word also will be the greater, because in His Manhood He seems so little worth. For it is a fact that the more unbelievers pour scorn on Him, so much the more does He make His Godhead evident. The things which they, as men, rule out as impossible, He plainly shows to be possible; that which they deride as unfitting, His goodness makes most fit; and things which these wiseacres laugh at as "human" He by His inherent might declares divine. Thus by what seems His utter poverty and weakness on the cross He overturns the pomp and parade of idols, and quietly and hiddenly wins over the mockers and unbelievers to recognize Him as God

"The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation." - Colossians 1:15.

If you want to see God, look to Jesus's humility. Look to his birth in a manger attended to by lowly shepherds. Look to his rejection by men. Look to the Cross and his humiliation. It is through looking at Jesus in all of his punishment, rejection, and death that we see the love of God stooping down to rescue sinners. God reveals himself through Jesus and all of his story, especially through the humble and hidden things. 

Advent and Christmas is a time to see that most clearly, I think.