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Christmas to me represents "Good News." As the story goes, the Jews hoped and prayed for a king. They were oppressed by the Roman Empire and Israel was seen as an undisireable outpost in the desert. These people needed some good news, but never expected it to come in a fashion as Christianity identifies the coming of their Savior.
The good news is that God used the absolute least likely circumstance to send the greatest gift the world has ever seen. A child from the most humble beginnings, that would grow up into a man that, never wrote a book, was not a world traveler, on radio or television, and was literally hated to death by the current religious system.
Yet this man, like no other that has ever walked the face of the earth, before or since, has had the most profound effect on every inhabitant since. The world was never the same.
The good news for us, whether you believe in a virgin birth, or in heaven or hell as actual physical places or not, is that God always uses the least likely. Throughout the Bible the least likely are used. Mary and Joseph were unimportant people. The lowly Shepherds were the first to be told by the Angels of Jesus' arrival in the disgusting surroundings.
Peter and all the disciples, the woman at the well, Mary being the first to know about the ressurection, Saul to Paul, all of them, least likely parts of society.
The Bible clearly states it like this -
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are...
Christmas to me represents "Good News." As the story goes, the Jews hoped and prayed for a king. They were oppressed by the Roman Empire and Israel was seen as an undisireable outpost in the desert. These people needed some good news, but never expected it to come in a fashion as Christianity identifies the coming of their Savior.
The good news is that God used the absolute least likely circumstance to send the greatest gift the world has ever seen. A child from the most humble beginnings, that would grow up into a man that, never wrote a book, was not a world traveler, on radio or television, and was literally hated to death by the current religious system.
Yet this man, like no other that has ever walked the face of the earth, before or since, has had the most profound effect on every inhabitant since. The world was never the same.
The good news for us, whether you believe in a virgin birth, or in heaven or hell as actual physical places or not, is that God always uses the least likely. Throughout the Bible the least likely are used. Mary and Joseph were unimportant people. The lowly Shepherds were the first to be told by the Angels of Jesus' arrival in the disgusting surroundings.
Peter and all the disciples, the woman at the well, Mary being the first to know about the ressurection, Saul to Paul, all of them, least likely parts of society.
The Bible clearly states it like this -
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are...
That is the good news!! That you and I and everyone that is deemed by society as low, less than, worthless or undesireable, is exactly what God chooses.
That is what Christmas day represents to me. Society no longer dictates, but a new government, a new domain, a new kingdom rules in the end and we are it's prize possession!
I have some cockeyed views that the man made system of religion rejects but I seek Truth as it is revealed to me and as I understand it to be. I seek it and live it fearlessly, for I am to please God and not man.
I say with full conviction that surrendering my life to Jesus has been the biggest positive influence in my life to this day and today I have never been more thankful, felt so blessed, so full of joy or more prosperous. I believe Jesus can transform any life he is invited into.
I reject the man made religious system that many call church and fully embrace God outside the walls and in a life that I hope demonstrates more and more the exact Freedom that the gift of an infant in a stinking manger with animals and all of society busy doing their thing so much they didn't recognize the significance of this child, is.
He came to set the captives free and to bring us life more abundantly!
Merry Christmas
