HAVE A JOYFUL CHRISTMAS!
The biggest disaster that has ever happened in this sin-infected world is missing the most important purpose why Jesus, the Son of God, had to come and become like us. Until now there are people who celebrate Christmas with exceeding joy but only superficially because they are still desperately lost, unassured of their salvation when they face God in His judgment seat. They think that His coming was only a big show on earth missing the point that He came to bring all sinners like you and me and everyone else to God by dying on the cross for our sins once for all (1Peter 3:18). They failed to realize the big insult they hurled at Jesus by overlooking the all sufficient value of His Shed Blood on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins (Heb. 10:29). They wrongly believed that Jesus came for the righteous when in reality there is none not even one (Roman 3:10) but He came to save sinners (1Tim. 1:15). God did what is not possible by man by sending His Son to pay our debt in full. “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2Cor. 5:21). “We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all . . . by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy” (Heb. 10:10,14).
Give glory to God this Christmas by giving what is due to Him, the highest worship and adoration. Confess by your mouth and acknowledge Him as your Savior and Lord (John 17:10; Rom. 10:9). Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved – you and your household” (Acts 16:31). “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance; that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that that He appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve” (1Cor. 15:3-5).
Before I knew Christ I believed I need to be good to enter heaven, but now having enlightened by God’s infallible word in the Scripture, I say that I must strive hard to be good for my citizenship is now in heaven (Eph. 3:20) not because I’m good for I know I’m not but because of God’s grace and mercy (Eph. 2:8; Titus 3:5).
With gladness in my heart, may I greet you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS with its true meaning. Like the Blessed Mary (Luke 1:46-47), the mother of Jesus in human form, I can assuredly say that my soul is rejoicing because of my God my Savior. If the Blessed Mary confessed that she needed a Savior, more so for us because we all are hell bound. But thank for His indescribable gift, the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ, our all in all. "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus and Lord" (Romans 6:23).