Our Savior

Merry Christmas y’all! This time of year is precious, wonderful, full of joy, and family together-ness. But what I want to focus this post on specifically is the “why” of Christmas, it tends to get lost under our excitement of the pretty lights, Christmas trees, gifts, and traditions galore. None of these are inherently bad, but there is something wrong when they overshadow the reason for the celebration. There is one reason for the celebration, and that is the birth of our Savior, the key word being OUR. If you are human, you need a Savior.

Its actually quite humbling, we cannot save ourselves from our sinful condition, no one can, no matter how many good things you have done, they cannot cancel out your sinful condition. But Thank God, we have someone who can and His name is Jesus Christ.

Jesus never came into being, before anything ever was,  He was. He chose to come down from heaven and share in our humanity to save us from the destiny that we deserve: death. He died and received God’s wrath for our sin on calvary so we didn’t have to. Hebrews 2:9 (NIV) puts it this way:

“But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”

Jesus suffered for our sins and tasted our death so we didn’t have to, all while being perfectly sinless, “he who knew no sin was counted as sin in order that we might become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21, NIV).”

In all of this, Jesus defeated the works of the devil and gave us peace with God. Now instead of seeing our sin, for those who accept Jesus Christ as their Savior, God sees the righteousness of Christ. Jesus came to the world to die for sins so we could have what we did not deserve: eternal life, and be pardoned from what we did: death. Because of this,

“God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.“

He did this because he loves us more than we could ever imagine. So friends, lets keep our focus on Jesus, because he far too precious and worthy to forget. Merry Christmas!