Thoughts for another day


December 20, 2010

Today's verse: Philip. 2:7. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

As we prepare to celebrate this Christmas, we must remember the greater things that the celebration demands of us. For Christmas is not a festival of being merry (wonder who coined 'merry' Christmas) as in getting drunk and being in good spirits but rather being in the grip of the great mercy of our God who deigned that His Son be born as man for the salvation of man.

So as our Scripture says, Jesus arrived on earth in the form of lowly man, lowly for truly God's form is just too majestic and magnificent before which man pales into lowliness. He shed all His awesome glory in coming as a man; yeah we know Jesus as a frail man, but His glory as he reigns at the right hand of the Father is simply brilliant. Care to understand His glory? He says Himself, when the Son of man comes, it will be in amazing grandeur and in great glory and power and you will see Him from one end of the sky to the other. Awesome, simply awesome the glory of the Lord who today, we commemorate to have taken birth in a simple manger as a frail little child, which was announced to not the high and mighty, but to some wise men and some lowly shepherds; certainly not the way of man who would announce it from the roof-tops isn't it?

But that Christmas night reminds us of something most beautiful…that our God loves us so much He actually chose to come down and live with us, like us! And this is enough motivation for us to keep the spirit of Christmas in our hearts this year and reach out in some small way to the poor and the marginalized and touch them and show them God's love which He has washed and filled us with.