Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. He gave what we never asked for but we always needed.
Isaiah 9:6: “For unto us a Child is born. Unto us a Son is given. And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Luke 2:11: “for there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”
Romans 6:6: “Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.”
I have met many people who believe their lives are complete and they do not need anything. You may have a parent or spouse or even a friend who says they do not need anything because their lives are complete. But life is not complete by what you have as much as it is completed by what you give. For instance, if you don’t believe you need love it will be difficult for you to give love.
Christmas and what it means is God’s way of saying to us He would show His love towards us even if we say we do not need to be loved. God knows that we all need a savior even if we don’t all recognize that we do. The birth of Christ is God’s way of saying He gave each of us what we needed even when we may not believe we need anything at all.
There are many reasons God is this way towards us, but the primary reason is sin, and the impact sin will have on our eternal lives. But we have a problem with sin. We cannot understand what it means to be free from sin until we understand how we are naturally bound to sin.
To fully understand what Christmas means to us, we must understand sin, and life and the role Christ play in all that. Part of this understanding is found in His names by which Christ is called.
He is called Wonderful because He brings to us the purest sense of Knowledge and of Wisdom. We cannot know what is bad until we can know what Wonderful is. Man typically uses only worldly knowledge by which to live but this can mislead us more than it can help us.
Christ brings to us Divine Knowledge and Wisdom which is needed for us to understand how we ought to live our lives. This Christmas understand that Christ comes to you as all things Wonderful. This way you will be able to recognize the things that are not.
He is called Counselor because He alone can have conversations with us that reveal the deepest insights and can edify us so that our souls are touched and set afire to live better. He counsels us with Truth so that we are not easily misled by lies. This Christmas unwrap your Counselor and let Him talk with you.
He is called the Everlasting Father because He was before us, He lives with us during our humanity and He will be with us in our transition to eternity. And though our earthly fathers will all die, Christ will always be. He is an Everlasting Father who will love us in an everlasting way. He is the Father who never dies. This Christmas go live with your Everlasting Father.
He is called the Prince of Peace because He gives us the ability to fight and win the battle to save us from being slaves to sin. While this does not mean we will never sin again, He gives us the ability to always be at peace with what things we have and with what things we lack so that we cannot be made slave to sin when it comes and offers to us what things it believes we want.
So, this Christmas Day, remember that Christ means you have a life manual to help you learn how to live. You no longer need to live as if you do not understand why you are here.
A Child was born and a Son was given to us long ago. The very Son of God. He was crucified and raised from death. On a day like today long ago, He came to us. Because of that we were all given privilege through Him to be crucified in our flesh and to be raised to life in Him.
So, let this Christmas be the start of your journey to understand why Christ came, why you are here and why its important for you to accept, not just the gift of Christ, but to also accept what the gift means to your life today and to your eternal life to come.
You need the gift that Christmas represents. Don’t think that you don’t.
Halleluiah Christmas to you.
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