Christmas: The Everlasting Father On Mission Impossible

At Christmas, when so much is written about the fact that our Saviour Jesus Christ was born and all the wonders and beauty abiding therein, still leaves and begs the question not only Why, but How.

So what about man’s presence on earth and what the future holds for him? Folks, it is quite apparent there is hardly any future for mankind worth speaking of or speculating about. And why is this? Death and destruction seem to reign everywhere and have done so throughout all time. And time appears to be something we all have so very little of. In other words, all of mankind’s life is or can be said, at best, temporal and fleeting and ending in death. So, to quote what I wrote in a previous letter (Christmas: A Great Light In Darkness), “TRULY OUR STATE IS THAT OF PERISHING.”

OH yes, there is so much that is wondrous and beautiful in the Christmas season, but the most wonderful, especially the most wonderful, is that God loves us! We do have to wonder at this, seeing that we have trouble loving others, and even ourselves, it seems. But it’s been that way since mankind sinned against God in the Garden Of Eden! And so, we continue to suffer the consequences of insisting on our way rather than God’s way. And yet, absolutely amazingly, while thinking of destroying us, His great love prevailed, and He said, “I will not give you up, for I am God and not man”! This is a God worth loving and seeking, reaching out for His righteousness and not our wickedness, His Light rather than darkness, and Life rather than death!

As Jesus (God on earth) said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” the answer to man’s sin problem is in the power of The Everlasting Father to work the miracle of the impossible. So, as Christmas unfolds before us and we are once again reminded of the birth of Jesus Christ and His mission (what Christmas is all about) while knowing the Why of His coming, I sincerely hope you can and will find the How of His redemptive power for yourselves. For then, you will know the joy and surety of eternal life in Jesus Christ and abiding forever with Him!

Again, as to the How, it rests entirely in His power to work the impossible, thereby realizing all He plans for us and what, as I wrote in another letter (Miracle Worker); “we become as the result of a wondrous miracle of God. Or more pointedly, from the touch of the Master’s hand”!  Are you seeking Him?

In His Love, In His power,

Rev. Jess Shifflett
Front Royal, VA

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