What kind of Christmas will you have this year?

What kind of Christmas will you have this year?

Most of us have a thought or a plan for this Christmas, your thoughts and plans are personal. Do you know that God has an ongoing plan for Christmas and not unlike you, His plan is personal too! Whatever your view or concept of God is, God has a plan for you. But His plan is not a plan that any of us will ever seek in seventy or eighty years, His Christmas cannot be changed or amended. It is His plan and it is the same yesterday, today and forever (Heb 13:8), His Christmas plan began before there ever was a universe including the Earth our temporary home. Some would argue that the earth and universe was created roughly six to seven thousand years ago. However, like God’s Christmas, Creation is NO LIE!

God prepared His Christmas event over six thousand years ago, before there ever was an EARTH. John 17:1-5 God’s Christmas is God’s Son; as if you did not know this, His Name is Jesus Christ, or Jesus Messiah, He is the One who is the same, yesterday, today and forever.

God’s first mention of Christmas is revealed to us in Genesis 3;14-19. Now you say, I do not see any reference to Christmas in these verses, true because our common human view of Christmas misses the mark. God’s plan differs from ours, take a look at verse 15. The first mention of life through the “seed” of the woman is in ‘lower case’. All borne into the world, whether man or beast is in lower case, but there was one “Seed” born of the woman whose Name is Jesus, “Emmanuel”, He is God’s Christmas.

Continuing from Isaiah 52 and 53, God decorated His Christmas with ornaments of the world. Beginning with verses 13-15. As I read, I will point out the highpoints of this important passage of scripture that was written by the prophet Isaiah about 2800 years ago.

God’s ornaments are not what we expect, as the Father has laid on His Son the iniquity of us ALL. What a sight! Bruised beyond recognition, if we saw Him, like the world sees Him, we would despise Him and reject Him. He was broken and afflicted, He was physically wounded. Why because we like wayward sheep ran away. His ornaments are your sins and mine and for the entire world. In this He was afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. Like a the Lamb (John 1:29), He was led to the slaughter.

Matthew 1:1-25 – this Child is the Son of God. God’s Christmas Event, He is “also” the gift of God the Father for all who believe, therefore I am not ashamed of Him, I have received Him as a gift from God and as scripture reveals my sins are taken away. I am forgiven as my sins were placed on Him, as yours was too, you only need to believe and trust the message, as it is impossible for God to lie.

Titus 1:2 – In hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began. Also see Numbers 23:19.