Christmas

This is the Christ I know and love..

The birth of Christ.

That is what Christmas is about.

Or what it should be about.


Why is His birth significant? It is because His coming means we are going to be saved. His birth meant Him taking a human form, with human needs, emotions, and thoughts. He became a normal human being. Yet He was God, and He existed at the beginning of time. He was God made Man. He took flesh as ours, blood as ours. He became mortal, so He could pay the ultimate sacrifice for the human race. We on our own would have never made it.

God is Love. Love is God. CARITAS!

Love was the very reason he bridged that gap that broke communion with God. The cross, his death was the ultimate sacrifice! No more blood needed to be shed. Our omnipotent God died for our sins yesterday, today and tomorrow. He is there at the beginning, He is there at the end. He came for the sinners, not for the righteous. He went out to save that one lost sheep and left the 99 behind. He ran out to greet the prodigal son who took his share and spent it all, and He kissed him.

He is the God who forgives sinners. Who gives hope. Happy are we who have that hope in us. For we have true joy. A promise of divine mercy. Our God is a just God, but His commandment is Love. That is the ultimate. Love. No greater Love can any man have than to lay down His life for a friend.

He was born on this day so He could lay His life down for us. Sinners who will sin and sin yet again. He is our role model. He makes it possible to live in grace. Ask and you shall receive divine strength to overcome our bodily weaknesses. God only knows how weak I am.

So yes, He was born on this very day, so we could be saved.

I am lucky that I believe. I thank God that I believe.

I do not know how to preach. I do not know how to make you see.

But what I do know is that my life is a testament to His Love and Mercy.

My prayer tonight is that He shows Himself to you as He did to me.

Merry Christmas everyone!