Christmas Series

Hello! I am so sorry that the blog has been neglected for the past few weeks! Hopefully we can get back to it as soon as possible. Today I'll be started a new Christmas series for you guys. As an introduction, I'd just like to dwell on the significance of Christ's birth. First, I want you to think of God. What words or descriptions come to your mind as you ponder Him? Maybe you think of Power....Holiness...Majesty....Perfection....Faultlessness....Divinity.... All of these words only begin to describe the utter VASTNESS of God. We can never, never, never even hope to scratch the surface of the character of God. We do not know the depths of his attributes...I'm sure there are even characteristics of Him we have not even discovered yet! He is all-powerful, all-knowing, omni-present and the list goes on and on. In short, he is beyond us.... He is too much for our minds to wrap around. Please...don't let the magnificance of God escape you...It's what makes the Christmas story 10x more amazing! How can a God so beyond us become a tiny, helpless, dependant baby? We are speaking of the God who does not tolerate sin...yet, He chose to be born in a stable? The Creator of the Universe chose the lowliest and poorest of people, the shepherds, to be the first ones to worship His son. The commander of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of angels has chosen to come to earth. If that doesn't affect you then you've missed something. Why did the Creator come for the created? We'll never know why. Why He chose to display his bottomless love and unquenchable mercy to us is too beyond our imaginations. He didn't come because we deserved to be saved. He didn't come because He needed us. He came because it was His good pleasure that even more glory may be brought to His name. I hope the significance of that blows you away. Don't get caught up in the material side of Christmas. When you are receiving gifts, remember the greatest gift you've ever been given...The gift of God himself. The gift you and I did nothing to earn.
So...where would we be if Jesus has never come as a baby? Dead in our sin. Hopeless. Destined for wrath. What do you have that you have not received from God?! Obvious answer: nothing. Please...let's take a stand to remember the true meaning of Christmas. If Bethleham had never happened you and I would be nowhere.

Bug