“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” (Micah 5:2).
Hello again. And it is that time of the year when we are confronted with the truth of our SAVIOUR’s birth. “In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with GOD, and the WORD was GOD. The same was in the beginning with GOD. All things were made by HIM; and without HIM was not any thing made that was made. In HIM was life; and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:1-4). I heard someone say something to this effect, that we are more excited over gifts, parties, and that other imaginary person dressed in a red suit, than we are at the ONE most important of all, and that is the SAVIOUR, SON of GOD – JESUS who is called the CHRIST.
I have been going over the second phase of my Bible reading of the Old and New Testaments. And I have been slowly and painstakingly going over the passages of the divine records of the MESSIAH (JESUS) from the four authors (biographers) who were divinely inspired by the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD. I didn’t want to just read through the gospels without any semblance of some kind of organization, so I looked over references of harmonies of the divine biography of our SAVIOUR and LORD. And I found three that were very helpful – 1. A.T. Robertson, 2. Life of CHRIST, and 3. Blue Letter Bible.
Then this song by Francesca Battistelli came out, title “You’re Here”. And the first part of the lyrics goes something like this:
Hold on now, I got to take a deep breath I don't know what to say when I look in your eyes You made the world before I was born Here I am holding you in my arms tonight Noel, noel, JESUS our Emmanuel You're here, I am holding YOU so near I'm staring into the face of my SAVIOUR, KING and CREATOR YOU could've left us on our own, but YOU'RE here Don't know how long I'm gonna have YOU for But I'll be watching when YOU change the world I look at YOUR hand, they're still so small Some day YOUR going to stretch the out and save us all Noel, noel, GOD with us Emmanuel.
So, I try to keep my perspective about my SAVIOUR’s great humility in being the great CREATOR taking upon HIMSELF human form.
I was thinking in the lines of the incomparable blessing of knowing my MESSIAH (through HIS HOLY WORD) that leads to nothing short of praise to the LORD GOD, as was the exclamation of Mary when she realized that she was bearing the CHRIST child:
“And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the LORD, and my spirit hath rejoiced in GOD my SAVIOUR.” (Luke 1:46-47).
The KING of glory became man, was born as a helpless little human child, in a seemingly insignificant town, a city of David called Bethlehem. So for me, this season is special because of not Santa Claus (and he doesn’t know or see everything), but of JESUS CHRIST (and HE already came to the city of Bethlehem!)
“And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for this it is written by the prophet, And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a GOVERNOR, that shall rule my people Israel.” (Matthew 1:5-6).
P.S. Click here for further inspiration on the CHRIST-CHILD, SAVIOUR’s incarnation – Born To Die by Dr. John MacArthur.
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