His-story
Jesus knew his purpose in life and fulfilled it with
resolve. His victory over sin and death gives us the opportunity to live a
purposeful life today. As Jesus testified to the truth of God and man, so we
are called to testify to Jesus. Every day our lives can and do give evidence to
the power of his loving sacrifice. Since we are liberated in Jesus, we can live
in freedom toward others, unrestrained and generous in our compassion and
fervent in our witness to our Savior. Our lives can be lived with purpose,
determination, and joy in the knowledge that we are freed from the consequences
of sin and the finality of death.
“Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call His name
Immanuel.” Isaiah 7:14
The educated man is ignorant, the strong man is weak, and
the wealthy man is poor who doesn’t understand the true meaning of Christmas.
As Pastor Adrian Rogers once said: What good does it do us to put a man on the moon if we
can’t get God in our hearts? What good is it to know astronomy, how the heavens
go, and not know Jesus, the Bright and Morning Star, and how to go to heaven?
What good is it to know botany and the study of flowers and not know Jesus,
heaven’s sweetest rose, the Rose of Sharon, who can perfume any life? What good
is it to know the events of history, yet not know that history is His story?
What good is it to know geology and the ages of rocks and not know Jesus, the
Rock of Ages? “For it is in Him we live and move and have our being.”
Everything that God is, Jesus is. Everything that God
has, Jesus has. Everything that God does, Jesus does. Jesus is God. He is fully
God. He is not part-God and part-man. He’s not all God and no man. He’s not all
man and no God. He is the God-man. Jesus makes the invisible God known to man.
He is the very Word of God. He is God’s Word to this human race. He is God in
human flesh.
Jesus was not just another child. He was not just the
Galilean peasant, the great teacher. He was supernatural.
The first Christmas God sent a package to earth. This
package was a gift of deity wrapped up in humanity. What a marvelous thing this
is. It’s supernatural.
In a broad sense God is omnipresent, which means that
everywhere we go, He is there. But if we really want God with us, and more
specifically, if we want Christ living in our hearts, then we must turn from
our sin and believe in Him.
Blessings,
Raj Kosaraju
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