Tag: Christmas Season

Luke 2:4-5 ” So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.”

Caesar Augustus had given a command that the whole Roman Empire should have an official count of  the population.  So we see Joseph and Mary headed to Bethlehem…Joseph’s home town to be recorded.  This earthly father of Jesus was a kind carpenter by trade…a conscientious Jew who adhered to the Law…but who had to totally trust God when he found out Mary was pregnant.  This quiet man had to work through hurt, confusion, and wounded feelings to rely solely on the Lord’s promise of the coming Messiah.

Isaiah 7:14 ” The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”

This may be one of the most well-known prophecies of the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ.  Uttered by Isaiah in 734 BC, this unbelievable miracle is so far-fetched, so difficult for us to put our heads around, that it can be only be God that can accomplish it.  It goes far beyond Anatomy and Physiology…far beyond our scope of understanding…into the realm of signs and wonders.  ” And He will be called Immanuel”…God with us.   If you stop to think about it, this is probably the greatest miracle of all.   Almighty God came down from heaven and lived among us in the tiny form of a baby…that we may be saved from our sins.

Matthew 6:27 ” Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? “

In our minds,  we’d love to have it…the perfect Christmas, complete with bells and mistletoe, gifts and family.  But it usually doesn’t work out that way, and in the weeks leading up to Christmas stress takes over and we find ourselves focused on the wrong things.  We’re worshipping the problems by worrying…we’re devoting ourselves to a crazy schedule out of desperation…and we’re putting up on a pedestal the to-do list only we think must get done.  Quit fretting and stewing over the small stuff…Christmas will happen with or without every detail being done and it will be perfect in its imperfect way.  For if you think about it…there has been only one “perfect” Christmas…and it happened in all places –  a cow shed.

My wish for you this Christmas Season

Just think, you’re here not by chance, but by God’s choosing.  His hand formed you and made you the person you are.  He compares you to no one else – you are one of a kind.  You lack nothing that His grace can’t give you.  He has allowed you to be here at this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.

Written by Roy Lessin, Co-founder of DaySpring