Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. When I think about the reason for the season, I realize how much we need to be reminded that God is in control. Jesus came to Earth at a time when Romans ruled the world. Israel was under Roman rule. The people were waiting eagerly for a savior. It wasn't known then that a savior had indeed come into the world. Most people were ignorant, wanting to believe whatever the Romans pressed onto them. Some were frightened by the world around them. They were oppressed and felt forsaken.
Jesus came as a baby in a manger. He was helpless and dependent on others. He was despised and rejected. No one wanted to hear him. He didn't come as a king, but as an ordinary person. Yet his birth is celebrated even now. The angels proclaimed his birth to the shepherds, not to "important" people. It was ordinary shepherds who first visited the baby Jesus and told others about what they saw. It is the same today. Ordinary people still share the story of Jesus in the manger.
It wasn't until almost two years after his birth, that wise men from the East came to Bethlehem to see Jesus. It wasn't until Herod heard about the Messiah prophecy that he decided to kill all the male babies from birth to two years old in Bethlehem. When I think about the very narrow escape that Jesus had that sent him and his family to Egypt, I know that God's timing is perfect.
I do look forward to the New Year knowing that God's timing is still perfect. He is in control of all things, for all things came into being by him. It is a good reminder that God loves us so much that he sent his son to die for our sins...that we may have eternal life with him.
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