It is a Christmas
day where Jesus was born in this world for the execution of salvation. It ought
to be a birthday that everyone needs to remember and celebrate. The child was
born for all the nations and mankind. The crucifixion was for all the sinners
in the world and the blood was shed for cleansing the dirt in our souls
thoroughly. It must be a greatly joyful day ever in the human history for the
coming of the savior, for the salvation of the nations that no one else would
be able to give us.
For this Christmas, I decided to spend it in
my church at PJ for serving as an emcee for the event. Undeniably, I am not
good enough as a good emcee for the event. Anyway God somehow chose me to be
the one who looked after the flow of the event. It is kind of stressful thing
to do for I don’t really think I could bear the consequence for upsetting the
whole event. I prepared a script for that but what appeared in mind before the
moment I could grab the microphone was fear. I definitely understand that it
would not be a big crowd, but mistakes are strongly prohibited. I prayed
sincerely for the power and wisdom from God as I really scare that I would err
when I speak. Thank God for giving me peace and joy after the prayer and I managed
to lead them having a good gathering.
Today,
Patrick was the speaker who was assigned to preach before the guests. He seldom
talked about Bible this time as I think he understands that it is quite troublesome
for the new comers to search the scriptures with the bible. It would be more
pleasant for them to just listen all along the way. He talked about the
ultimate need of human and the nature of human for seeking the real God. It is
very true that the purpose of Christ being born was to fulfill the need of the
human which is getting free from the bondage of sin and the desire of human to
reach God for real joy.
We are
doomed since the outset of the human history that our ancients Adam and Eve who
sinned against God. From that time, we have been restricted by the bondage of
sin that we are no longer able to do anything good; we are separated by the
glory of God that we are not able to get the real peace and joy. The holiness
of life isn’t what we manage to have or seek to have. But God is a gracious God
who sent his son to us, through the bloody cross he saved us by bringing us
from the wrath of his justice into the love of his grace. What kind of
sacrifice was that? We did nothing but he has done everything for us. What we
do is only to give response accordingly.
Our God is
a unique God that is totally different from other gods that people would
imagine. He came here and was born in a dirty trough. This way of being born
indicated that God is a God of great humility. He did not come to receive but
to give. He sacrificed on the cross without blaming anyone for doing all these
things. He died in vain and rose again for us. He overcame the death and with
him we are saved. However, what he received from us in return was the
crucifixion, the humiliation, the torture and the curse. We have no right at
all to gain anything good. We haven’t done anything good but good in committing
sins and transgressions against him. It is really an amazing grace that the
world needs to know and I believe the aftermath for missing the grace of God would
be very terrible.
Wish all my
friends having a blessed and memorable Christmas. Wish you guys really get something
through what I have shared. God bless you always.
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