Christmas day...marks the coming of God to Earth in the humblest fashion and has inspired beautiful and majestic songs of joy and praise. Our King came to start HIs earthly reign by first identifying with the people He had fashioned. His life among us unfolded and climaxed with His death in our place and victory over death with resurrection to life again. Jesus is our Emmanuel, God with us. But Jesus coming to us has little value if we, personally and individually, do not come also to Him. How do we come to Jesus? With what attitude do we approach Him? How do we picture the One who was an infant but also Heaven's Lord? The beauty of Christmas is not only that God has come to save us but that we now come and submit to that salvation. Some came early, when Jesus was new born...shepherds and wise men. Others came during Jesus' teaching and healing ministry by the shores of Galilee. And some came even as they beheld Jesus' suffering on the Cross of Calvary. Whether early or late, let us each and let us all come to Him and bow before the One who came and who comes now to give us the life that can never end.
Mark 15:39 So when the centurion, who stood opposite Him, saw that He cried out like this and breathed His last, he said, "Truly this Man was the Son of God!"
Merry Christmas!
Rob Smith
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