And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." (Matthew
Jesus was "born a Savior." Being what He is, the King of love, isn’t it wonderful that He entered into so close an identification with our human race that needed Him so desperately. Could infinite love have stood idly by? Every soul which enters into the human family helps to quicken or depress its vitality. How much our race owes to the great souls that have been born into it, but how much more to Him who was in the form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God! He laid aside the use of the mighty power, which as Creator He might have employed, and stooped to be born in a stable, that He might share the life of the humblest and poorest.
What love
for men must have burned in the heart of Jesus! His zeal for mankind ate Him
up. There was a true enthusiasm for humanity in His heart. Why should there not
be the same with us? Let us ask that the "love of Christ--i.e. the very
love which burnt within Him--may also constrain us." Let us be willing to
subject ourselves to inconvenience, to limitations, to the wrapping of
swaddling clothes, if only we may get near to others, removing all sense of
distance and unfriendliness.
"Glory to God in the highest, And on
earth peace, goodwill toward men!" (Luke
Men have
turned to God with adoring reverence, as they could not have done if they had
known Him only in Nature. Whenever we seek the glory of God as our main end and
purpose, it will always result in peace on earth. Live for the glory of God,
and you will have peace in your heart, and your life will flow forth in
goodwill and blessing for others.
The outburst
of song from the shepherds, "glorifying and praising God," as they
made their way back to their flocks, must have amazed all whom they met, and it
bore witness to the wonder that had transformed their lives. We are so ordinary
and commonplace, so unemotional and impassive, we cannot forget ourselves, and
are never carried beyond ourselves. David said that while he thought the fire
burned! Let us think on the love of God in descending to our world, in living
our life, and dying for us on the Cross. Then we shall burst out into songs,
and shall come back to our ordinary life with the flow of a new spirit. Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and
praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told
them. (Luke
PRAYER
My Father
God! Let the motto of my life from this
day forward be, "Glory to God in the Highest," for only so can there
be peace in my heart and goodwill towards men. May my heart be kept in unison
with the angel's song. In Christ Name I pray, AMEN.
God's Daily Promise
Promise
#16:
I will provide every good thing you need to do My
will.
Hebrews 13:20-21 (WEB)
20
Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of
the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, 21 make you
complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well
pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and
ever. Amen.
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