It’s Christmas Time and What Will You Celebrate?
It has been a long time since my last post and much has taken place in our world. The Russians are now best friends with the Chinese and Iran races to acquire a nuclear bomb, guess we know what they want for Christmas ;-)
I have been busy working around my home adding things to my survival preps and food stocks. My wife and I continue to talk about what is happening in our world and how we see it through the eyes of our faith. We watch people like Jack Van Impi and Hal Lindsey and they smile from ear to ear almost bounding out of their seats and insisting that Jesus is coming very soon. This idea makes us very happy. While we love living here on earth and enjoy the world God has created we are not blind to the evils of humankind and we see the great injustices continually perpetrated upon the poor and defenseless of this world. Jesus IS coming soon and to a manger near you. I do not want to sound funny but it is true given the calendar day and time of year.
There is much around us that can so easily draw our attention away from the true meaning of the season, Jesus. The Holy bible tells us that God “found” favor with Mary, so much so that He sent an angel to greet her and not just any angel. This was an Arc Angel – Gabriel and his job is to be at the side of God’s throne. It strikes me that God thought so much of Mary and what were going to happen that He made a very big deal of it. He gave Gabriel a special message, Mary was with God’s favor, not that she had done anything special to warrant it but that God had chosen to give it to her. God chooses to give us all something, we may not see it but there is something and in His eyes and heart we warranted being saved and Jesus was sent to us as a babe lying in an animal’s food trough. Why did God feel He had to go so far into poverty? Why did God believe that Jesus had to be born through illegitimate parents, away from their families and treated as though they were street people? I will not pretend to read God’s mind but what I see in it is that no sign or means of wealth status was given to Jesus. In some part of our world that means a lot to many people.
He is the redeemer King and friend of all who the world has cast out of its societal circles. Jesus is soon to be lying in the manger once again under someone’s tree or atop their television within a manger scene and once again He will allow Himself to be identified with those who are shunned and told by the world that they do not count and that they should just go somewhere else, “the inn is full.”
Jesus is our living present and gift given by a loving Father and God to all of us who are blessed and fortunate to have been awakened by the spirit of God through the workings of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is once again brought to the level of a defenseless infant who cries of hunger and dirty diapers, needing our attention. “Our attention”? Yes, our attention, yours and mine. It is our charge put upon us by the Holy Spirit to care for and nurture this Holy infant child who lives now in the manger of our hearts. We must feed Him with our time and clothe Him with our praises of gratitude. He waits to be washed by our tears and dried with the soft touch of our heart’s embrace. Jesus is the meaning and gift of this season, let us celebrate as Mary did and sing to God, you know the words…don’t you? My soul gives glory to the Lord and my spirit shall rejoice in God my savior, for He who is mighty has done great things and Holy is God’s name.
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