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Encouragement for your daily walk with God
Christmas! The fulfillment of God’s promises given through the lips of ancient prophets, and the dreams of His people. That simple birth was a grand act, the greatest act of history as God sent His Son because of His deep love for us.
The advent is a story of contrasts on many levels. Jesus gave up His heavenly home for a filthy stable. He walked away from unfathomable joy for the cross and shame. He gave up a secure relationship to serve people deeply broken by sin. He surrendered His freedom to learn obedience. He exchanged the love of His Father for rejection by people. And, one more, a most intriguing prospect, He forsook independence for complete dependence on Mary.
A simple birth? Yes. A grand act? Absolutely! Think about it, dear Christ follower. The supreme God of the universe loved you so much that He sent His only Son. I can’t think of another time in history when a simple birth was such a grand act—an act leading to a great sacrifice, which would take away the sins of the world. Yours and mine!
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Philippians 2:5-7
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