Christmas 2014
Matthew 1:18-25; Matthew 2:1-12; Luke 1:26-38; Luke 2:1-20
This Christmas is a hard one.
My beloved brother-in-law who I have spoke of on here before
passed in March this year after 8 years battling CHF.
His last 7-8 weeks on this earth were not easy,
For him or anyone who loved him.
So this being our first Christmas without him here,
is especially hard and kind of strange to be honest.
I also have a brother who has been in heaven now for over 5 years.
Hard to believe that either of them are gone.
Let alone all other loved ones who have passed.
Some many many years ago...my lifetime.
We are at my sister's
where we always spent Christmas,
at least in my lifetime.
Things have changed in the last 3 years
due to family and change, which, I guess happens.
So this makes things harder, just.....because it does.
However as I laid in bed last night and stared at my sister's
Christmas tree and her fireplace with her beautiful decorated mantel,
I was reminded of Jesus and the night of his birth.
Oh how I wish I could have been there!!
Can you imagine being able to transport yourself to this moment?
Like in the movies when someone is able to beam themselves
to a past time in history, I would love to be able to do this!
To be there to witness the entire history event of Christ's birth!
I love babies so no doubt I would have wanted to hold him,
give Mary some advice no doubt!!
But would I have?
Maybe knowing what I know, I would just have sat there,
and watched it played out like a stage play.
In awe, not able to speak.
Or would I have yelled at the Inn keeper?
Knowing what was about to happen,
would I have ran up to him and said,
"You idiot!! Do you know WHO this is?!?!!?"
(anyone who knows me, knows I WOULD do this!)
Or would I have at least told the Inn Keeper to heat up some water
and fetch me a towel or two, we are about to have a baby!!
THE BABY!!
No, I think I would have let it play out exactly like it did.
After all, God ordained it exactly like it happen.
And He knows way better than I why things happen the way they do!
Matthew 11:27
"All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows
the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the
Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
- See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/God,-All-knowing#sthash.T6l5XRQy.dpuf
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Matthew 11:27
Matthew 11:27
"All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows
the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the
Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
- See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/God,-All-knowing#sthash.T6l5XRQy.dpuf
- See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/God,-All-knowing#sthash.T6l5XRQy.dpuf
I don't understand them always.
Like Jesus birth.
Why was the Inn Keeper Cold and Heartless
to a young pregnant woman
and her husband on such a cold night ?
Why did a King have to be born in a stable?
Why?
Some things are not meant to be understood.
Birth, Life, Death.
Some things, we just believe.
We know they just ..... Are.
All I know is He WAS Born!
And for me and my faith
I rejoice in that fact.
It's what makes me get up every morning.
He gives me my life.
My very breath.
I celebrate Him.
I Worship Him.
Everything about Him.
The way He was born.
His Life.
The way He died.
What He did for me.
Christmas is the one season that makes me
realize that He came down to me, us
as a baby to make Himself known to mankind.
He grew into a man who was perfect in every way
and died a horrible death so that I (we)
could be set free!
When I think of my loved ones spending Christmas in Heaven
I can't think of a better place to be!
Rejoicing and Singing Praises to God Almighty on His Birthday!
Happy Birthday Jesus!
Blessed are those who are amongst Him on this day!
Blessed are those who know Him and Love Him!
If you do know Him, Close your eyes....
Picture yourself there on that night.
What do you think you would do?
And if you are reading this and do not know the Love of Jesus
Ask Him now to come into your heart.
Lay down your sins at the foot of that cradle
and ask the Son of God to forgive you those sins.
Ask Him into your heart this Christmas!
And then come, join in the celebration of the reason for this season!
Come, Celebrate the One True King!
Christ the Lord!
