Isaiah 43:19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

God did a wonderful and new thing when Jesus came to earth. Many were quite shocked at the way he put his only beloved son not into greatest glory and majesty, but in a manger with a barely wed girl. Many a shocked today at this. Is this the most powerful God, who created heavens and stars and worlds? It is. He has taught us to look for him in new places. I wish you and myself that we may find him there, where he has pointed us to and bow in humility before his eternal wisdom and grace. Sing to God a new song and make a path for his ways, please. Many blessings are promised to the one who will search for the light and not turn back, neither by bribery nor by threat. May his love be around me and you. Have a wonderful and truly joyful Christmas.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son....

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son....

Most of us know that verse. If we know only one verse it may well be this. Pondering it in my mind while I listen to some christmas tune, this thought was coming up. Christmas, as happy as we celebrate it, wasn't a happy day. It wasn't happy for God, even though he did what he had decided to do to give us a chance. Yet. knowing all as he did, it cannot have been a happy decision to give his precious son for our salvation. Salvation of a band of disturbed children that wouldn't even value the gift given and not comprehend its immense beauty and intent.

It probably wasn't all too comfotable for Jesus either, being born into a hostile world, into poverty, into certain death. To leave a so much better place behind, even if only for a moment counted short in front of eternity. 

I wouldn't enjoy leaving even my warm and comfortable little place for a stable, much less heaven. Just think! No, it is unthinkable.