Christ The Saviour Is Born!

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour,
which is Christ the Lord.

Luke 2:11

Well, December 25 has rolled around yet again. Christmas Day - a time for enjoying the company of friends and family, exquisite meals, the exchange of gifts...just plain having a wonderful time! The Christmas season is a very special time of year, a time to reflect on the good things that have happened throughout the year and share hopes and dreams for the year to come.

But what really makes Christmas Day special is the fact that Jesus Christ - God incarnate - was born into this world of a virgin. The Christ Child was sent by God Himself to serve as the perfect sacrifice so that we humans could be made whole, worthy to enter into the kingdom of heaven and gain eternal life. Jesus came down to the earth for just one purpose: to shed His blood and die upon the cross at Calvary in order to pay a debt He didn't owe - our sin debt.

When the Virgin Mary held her newborn son inside that manger some 2,000 years ago, she literally kissed the face of God and rocked the only sinless person in the history of the world to sleep. And 33 years later He would die a horrible death on the cross - only to rise again 3 days later. And the Lord Jesus Christ still lives today!

As you have probably noticed by now, there is no picture for today. There are no pictures available because there were no cameras back in the day of Christ's birth. I could have put up a pretty picture of a Christmas tree or perhaps a child gleefully tearing open an expensive Christmas present, but that isn't really what the true meaning of Christmas is all about.

Make no mistake about it - Christmas is indeed about the giving of a gift, but that gift was presented to all mankind on that first Christmas Day over two millennia ago. God, through the birth, death and resurrection of His only son gave the gift of eternal life to every man, woman and child who would accept it.

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