What would you do? Many a time you try and help and make friends with someone and they spurn your help?
What if you knew a better way to do things but you were constantly rebuffed.
Well, so it is with God! He created the world and the world turned its back on Him.
But instead of turning His back on the World, He declared His love and favour! Favour that was undeserved!
It was to shepherds the Good News was first declared. Not Kings, not nobles but down to earth, hard working shepherds.
“Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favour rests.”, was the cry of the angels. They were excited.
The Angels declared a Saviour. “A Saviour who is Christ the Lord.” He said.
When Mary was told to name this child Jesus “for he will save His people from their sins.” He would get us out of our mess.
What does favour from God to man look like? It is a gift of unmerited and constant love. Constant love when we mess up.
For unto us a Son is given. This is the gift of love. And isn’t that what real giving is all about. Giving even to what is undeserved.
And that is what God did: He gave of his very own to those who did not deserve it. I know I don’t deserve it.
The often quoted Bible verse says “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”John 3:16
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And so the offer is open to everyone. Like the Christmas story those that heard it were working class shepherds,. What was their response? Let us go, they said.
So what is our response? Shall we go and discover more about who Jesus is? There is a present waiting for us. : “He came to the world that was his own, but his own people did not accept him. But to all who did accept him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God.
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