I love that my 100th Blog fell on Christmas. I was recently reading about the First Christmas, and loved the way the author explained it.
All is now ready for the most important event in human history. It is an event planned even before the creation of the world. It is the keeping of a promise made to Abraham over 2000 years earlier. It is the fulfillment of a host of prophecies regarding a Messiah who would come to establish his kingdom. Most importantly, it is the beginning of a dynamically new relationship between God and man. The event is the coming of the Savior of the world, the Messiah--or, as referred to in the Greek, the Christ.
Who is this Christ, this Messiah? His name is Jesus. His symbolic name, Immanuel (meaning "God with us"), signifies his deity. He is man, to be sure, but God as well; and he is God--the God of Creation--but man as well. God lowers himself so that man might be elevted. He leaves heaven so that mn might enter it. To man, who cannot begin to understand the ways of God, it is clearly a great mystery. But what a marvelous and wonderful mystery it is!
I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas! As we celebrate, remember all of the blessings that have been given to you.
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