Merry Christmas Eve
Two thousand something years ago, something incredible and amazing happened. Even I have trouble contemplating it sometimes – I can’t think about it long enough, or my mind will start to spin.
Jesus left His throne in heaven, left His position of power and dominion with the Father and Spirit, and was born as a helpless little baby. His arrival wasn’t grand in the manner that people would ordinarily expect would befit a royal son. But I can only imagine that the Earth – the stones, the mountains, the trees, the animals, and all of creation that naturally does what it’s supposed to do – rejoiced at His descension to this place.
It’s because Jesus came to this Earth as a baby, and because He grew up into a boy and then a man, that He truly felt the sorrows and joys of mankind to the fullest. And yet unlike us, the Bible tells us, Jesus went through all his trials and sufferings on Earth without ever sinning – without ever disobeying the will or command of His heavenly Father. It’s because of that, that when He was crucified on the cross, that His perfect blood was sufficient to pay for the sins of everyone in the human race, past, present, and future. And when He rose from the dead on the third day, Jesus conquered death once and for all – so that anyone who believed in Him and His work on the cross from then on could be justified (made right with God) and live eternally.
All that began on a Christmas eve many years ago – the night before Jesus was born was the last day in history of its kind. Because on Christmas day, hope was born for all people who would hear and believe that Jesus is Lord.
Merry Christmas, everyone. Peace on Earth and in our hearts. God bless!