December 24, 2013

• merry Christmas eve!

  “what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life- and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us.”
  -1 john 1:1-2

  God incarnate, humbled Himself to be made like man.  to be a little lower than the angels.  to come as a helpless babe to save and reconcile sinners to Himself.  this is the same God who with just the breath of His Word created the heavens and the earth.  the God whose footstool is the earth that we live in.  the God who is wholly perfect, just, righteous, holy, sovereign, and good.  Christ, the God-man, sympathizes with us, with me, in my time of greatest need.  He is the perfect mediator and because of His finished work on the cross – His death and resurrection – He now intercedes on my behalf.  He rules and reigns, sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and will one day (soon, i hope), return to claim us as His own.  ekklesia, the “called out” ones, will run into the arms of our Savior.

  if anything should humble me, it should be the example set before me by my Savior, Christ.  if anything should be held dear to my heart, it should be His loving sacrifice He made on my behalf, to save a wretched, undeserved sinner such as myself.  if anything should excite me and bring me an immense amount of joy, it should be knowing that i am saved, redeemed, loved, called, justified, being made holy, and will one day be glorified.

  things disappoint.  people disappoint.  life hurts sometimes.  but things, people, and life were never made to fulfill.  the insufficiencies of things, people, and life only point to the sufficiency of Christ and give us a greater desire for the hope that is to come.  ”he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

  merry Christmas.  hope is found in the birth of Christ.

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