IT WAS TAX TIME AND JOSEPH AND MARY BEING HUGH WITH CHILD ABOUT TO BE BORN HAD A LONG WAY TO GO, ABOUT 90 MILES BY DONKEY. i CAN'T IMAGINE HER BEING ABLE WITHOUT GOD'S GIVING HER GRACE THAT WAS SUFFICIENT FOR HER.
TODAY THE TRIP IS MADE ON AIR CONDITIONED MERCEDES BUSES.
THEN ON ARRIVING THERE THEY FOUND THAT THE ONLY PLACE TO STAY WAS IN A
STABLE FOR ANIMALS.
MARY GAVE BIRTH TO A LITTLE BABY BOY, WHO WAS TO BE CALLED JESUS, CAN'T YOU JUST SEE HER CHECKING THIS BABY OUT, WAS HE LIKE ALL OTHER BABIES?
AFTER ALL SHE HAD CONCEIVED WITHOUT BEING WITH MAN, SURE ENOUGH 5 FINGERS ON EACH HAND, 5 TOES ON EACH FOOT, SHE RAPPED HIM UP TO KEEP HIM WORM AND PUT HIM IN THE MANGER.
BABY JESUS HAD TO BE FED, CHANGED, JUST LIKE ALL OTHER CHILDREN HAD TO LEARN TO WALK AND TALK JUST LIKE OTHERS.
DID MARY KNOW MORE THAN WE ARE TOLD OR DID SHE TRUST THE MESSAGE GOD HAD SENT BY AN ANGEL. WE DON'T KNOW.
EVEN THOUGH OTHERS MAY HAVE DOUBTED HER STORY, SHE HAD TO KNOW SOMETHING SPECIAL WAS GOING ON.
SHE HAD TO BE IMPRESSED.
WELL ANY WAY ONE WEEK FROM TODAY WE CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF JESUS OUR SAVIOUR.
IT'S HIS BIRTHDAY WE CELEBRATE.
WHAT DO THINK HE WANTS FOR HIS BIRTHDAY?
HE WANTS US, "ALL OF US"
HE WANTS US TO BE SERVANT'S
HE WANTS US TO PROCLAIM HIS LOVE AND SALVATION
HE WANTS US TO BE HIS DISCIPLES
HE WANTS US TO LOVE HIM WITH ALL OUR HEARTS.
I TRUST YOU'LL SPEND SOME TIME PONDERING ALL THESE THINGS THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON.
1 comment:
I often think about how Mary must have been like any other mother and yet, unbelievably different in that she bore a savoir, Christ the Lord. Do you think she was concerned about a sterile area to have her baby? Hard to imagine giving birth in this day and age in a stable among farm animals.
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