"Merry Christmas"

 Ironically, my daily devotional reading this morning had me in Luke 24, where Jesus rose from the dead AFTER He was cruelly slain. It was by His death that he saved His people from our sins, and while it’s true that He had to be born into this world in ORDER to die for believers, His Incarnation was only a means to that triumphant end...it wasn’t the end, itself. This is why, I’m sure, that Scripture never tells us to remember His birth (though it doesn’t say we CANT celebrate it) but it urges us to remember His DEATH till He comes....and to dwell on the fact that He IS risen!! God raised him from the dead because His Sacrifice on our behalf WAS acceptable to Him....Glory to God!!

Too many always see Jesus as “Baby Jesus,” a helpless Babe who never grew up to rebuke sin and point the way to salvation. Or, they leave Him, as an adult, ON that cruel cross where, again, He was helpless though a great, moral teacher and example.

Jesus is MORE than that.....Jesus is GOD IN THE FLESH and the biggest proof of that is not His Incarnation (though His Immaculate Conception IS amazing), nor is it His CRUCIFIXION. It’s the fact that He ROSE FROM THE DEAD and will return again, in Glory, to judge the living and the dead!! HE SITS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD THIS MORNING!!

And every knee.....will one day bow

Tell me please, why not do it NOW??

Merry Christmas!!

—Chet