I believe that it is highly appropriate for we humans to remember, on the day that we celebrate Christ's coming, why He came at all. Many in this world would simply thank Christ - if they think about Him at all today - for another reason for a holiday break in their lives. The Apostle Paul says this

'Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will - to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment - to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.' Eph. 1:3-10 NIV

About 1900 years later another of God's ministers, Oswald Chambers, shared the same truths of Christ this way

'Our Lord's cross is the gateway into His life: His resurrection means that He has power now to convey His life to me. When I am born again from above, I receive from the risen Lord His very life. Our Lord's resurrection destiny is to bring "many sons unto glory" (Heb. 2:10KJV) The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right to make us sons and daughters of God. We are never in the relationship to God that the Son of God is in; but we are brought by the Son into the relation of sonship. When our Lord rose from the dead, He rose to an absolutely new life, to a life He did not live before He was incarnate. He rose to a life that had never been before; and His resurrection means for us that we are raised to His risen life, not to our old life. One day we shall have a body like unto His glorious body, but we can know NOW!!! the efficacy of His resurrection and walk in newness of life'

On this Christmas day, are you 'in Christ'? Christmas is about nothing else but.

Posted by Steve Mounts at 5:20 AM

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