I personally want to wish you a wonderful Christmas with family and friends! I have a learned insight I have been reading about, and I would like to pass it on:
This life is not all about this life. It’s about the next!
Using a theatrical term, this life is actually the pre-show to the real show – The eternal one! But the Divine offering of life has a simple condition set forth by its Creator: this future blessing is contingent upon our acceptance of His “gift”.
As we embrace this holiday advent, to me I think it is imperative to understand the real gift that the God has given us with the manifestation of His son Jesus. And there are magnificent blessings that come with this gift.
Now for many, we might still picture Jesus as just a “baby” in a manger scene out in front of a church, or a sculpted white statue on its wall, or perhaps it’s a character in a Mel Gibson movie. But within all these scenarios, to many, Jesus is just an intriguing piece of history. And so were Julius Caesar, Gandhi and Aristotle. So were Einstein, Mozart, and Mother Teresa. Thus, it would be eternally important to consider and
embrace just who God’s scriptures reveals Jesus Christ to be:
HIS STORY – Long-ago, history records that a 30-year-old rabbi by the name of Jesus of Bethany walked on water, fed thousands with a few pieces of bread and fish, gave eyesight to the blind and life back to a dead man. And most significantly, he himself returned from the dead and claimed to be the Son of God! Whoa! That needs to be looked at!
Scripture goes on to attest of this man: “who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a
bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of
the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name, which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in
heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Jesus declared: “I am the bread of life. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” Speaking to a woman seeking water from a well, Jesus declared: “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
And this is the testimony: “that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
I believe that in these very dark times, God is again wooing the hearts of His creation back to Him. And, He has established a means for this reconciliation: it’s faith in Jesus Christ His son. History records that all of the world’s past great leaders have died! But Jesus Christ overcame death. That’s the man I choose to follow!
So, I have a question for you: Do you believe this story to be true? For if it is just cultural mythology, a mix of ancient fables and oral traditions, then we must all ditch the bestselling book, the Bible, and sing along with John Lennon imagining there is no Heaven. But if it is true, its message is eternally and personally most profound.
What say yee?
