Christmas Time!

On the Background:

Joseph being a righteous man didn’t want to expose Mary to public disgrace after he had learned that Mary was pregnant with a baby.

When he was pondering about this; the following incident happened:

But after he (Joseph) had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins" (Matthew 1:20,21)

And Joseph obeyed the divine instruction and took Mary as His wife for they were earlier betrothed to each other.

And at the appointed time Christ the Savior was born….

That’s what we call the Beginning of Christmas…

This happened in accordance to the covenant God had made with Man; since the fall of Adam…

The birth of the Messiah was awaited for centuries…

The Wise and the pious pondered about the exact timings and seasons that would foretell the coming of the Holy One…

This is what one of the Prophets Isaiah had to say:

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

With hundreds of other prophesies recorded in the Scriptures the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world was born…But not in the way the people expected….

He started as a baby…

 He came in our Likeness….

 He was meek and humble…

 He was one among them..

  

He was with them in the marketplace…

 He was loving and caring…

 He played and worked with them…

 He participated with them in their ceremonies…

And when He started His father’s work; the past made people doubt about who He was..

 They expected a King who would dethrone the Romans and reinstate the Israeli regime

 But when He came as a Lamb they couldn’t take it

Yes.. they rejected Him for no reason… yet He loved them as His own Children…

He didn’t lose His temper when people spat on Him and talked ill about Him…

 He didn’t curse those who blasphemed against Him…

 Instead He forgave them as he loved them and knew that they were doing it out of ignorance..

 To show His Love and to fulfill the Will of His Father; He denied Himself and took the cross so that the purpose of God concerning us be fulfilled in Him…

 He defeated evil and the powers of darkness by His death and Resurrection.

With it He completed the Christmas Season for a better endless reason… Of living eternally in Him…

And the New Christmas will begin when He returns with a New World Order filled with Love, Joy and Happiness…

I hope you will partake in it…

Wish u & ur Family a 

Merry & Melodious Christmas

Thanks & Regards,

Samuel Machado