Merry Christmas

Joining Debra at Common Ground for Christmas Inspiration today... thank you Debra

Christmas thoughts...

As all the decorations are hanging, the gifts are under the tree, the cards are in the mail and the candles are flickering... 
I stare at the dancing lights and reflect on just what Christmas means to me.

Oh yes, there is love, family and even cute little clichés, 
Jesus is the reason for the season.
 We celebrate the baby Jesus laying in a manger with angels singing praises to... who?

 Luke says, and the angels sang heavenly praises to the new born... King. Not baby, but King. 

In fact King of Kings.

 How many of us realize what God in all his glory did for us that night... it was much more than a miracle of a baby being born to a virgin... 

He surrendered himself to mankind. 

The very God that created every angel, heavenly host, principality, star, planet... man 

became a helpless poor child, born in a horrible stable. 

He became the lamb that was to be slain for us. 

He could have at any time called down the heavens but He chose to strip himself and become man that first Christmas, totally depending on His Father.  
To walk as an example for mankind and to show the hosts of heaven who He is.  

 It was His plan from the start, to reveal Himself through mankind.
 To sacrifice Himself so we could become sons of the Living God and reveal the love that God has for His creation. 

Gods only Son came down from His throne and became the sacrifice for sin...

 not only the sins of man but the concept of sin.
 He did away with sin through His blood, so that we might walk in victory every day...
 not only on Christmas. 

When He looks at you or me He sees us completely whole and sinless because of what His Son did. 

That my friends is the true meaning of Christmas and that is why the Angels sang...

 Glory to God in the Highest and on Earth,
 Peace  Goodwill to All Men... 
Every single one of us.

God Blessed Us Every One

Rebecca