God's Christmas Gift: Part IV (It Came to Us in Humility)
Matthew 1:18-23 This is how the birth of Jesus the
Messiah came about His mother Mary was pledged to be married to
Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the
Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the
law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to
divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel
of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not
be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is
from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you
are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their
sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through
the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a
son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
The
gift God has given us came to the world in the most-humble of wrappings. Christ
Jesus came to the earth to save the world from its sin. He did not come to live
like a King or elevate himself, although He is the King of Kings. He did not
come to enjoy the best that the world has to offer, even though He created the
world. Our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus was born into the world to take our
place on the Cross at Calvary to die for our sins so that we can spend eternity
with Him.
Those
that have placed their faith and trust in Christ Jesus and have accepted Him,
not only as their Savior but as their Lord as well, will spend eternity in His
glorious presence. When Christ Jesus ushers in the "New Heaven and The New
Earth," only those whose names are recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life
will be present with Him.
Jesus
is the ultimate and supreme display of the Love of God and genuine humility.
Jesus, the Author of Creation, the eternal God of Heaven, stepped out of
eternity and took on humanity. And though sovereign and omnipotent, He humbled
Himself to the death on the Cross for all people. Jesus died to reconcile
sinful humanity back to a Holy God. Our Lord and Savior came to bear our sins
in the humblest of ways and by the lowliest of means so that by faith, we may
become children of God.
With
the most incredible display of love for us, He stood before us, taking on our
guilt and our punishment on the Cross. A penalty we could never pay, and a
sentence we could not take upon ourselves. Jesus did this so we can experience
God's love for us in our day to day lives. And not only in our day-to-day lives
but also in God's continuing love for us during the eternity we will spend with
Him. God's gift to humanity, the ultimate gift of eternal life through His Son,
Christ Jesus, came in the simplest and humblest of wrappings.
We need to remember the fall of humankind brought with it division and alienation from God. Our sin-nature places us in conflict with God because it puts us at enmity against God. However, because of the greatest of all Christmas gifts, the gift of Eternal Life, we can become Children of God, adopted into His Royal Family, and become Joint-heirs with Jesus in God's Eternal Kingdom.
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