Once in our world a stable had something in it that ways bigger than our whole world.
CS Lews
This Christmas, we celebrate the birth of our wonderful Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He is the King of kings, yet after He was born, He was placed in a manger. By all earthly standards at that time, it would not be a fitting location to place one born as a king. Yet Jesus, being Emmanuel, God with us, came to this earth in humility in His humanity. This shows that as Lord and Savior, He is totally approachable. Anyone can come to Him by true faith alone and receive His free gift of Salvation.
Jesus came to be the Way of Salvation from man’s sin that originated back at the fall with Adam in Genesis. Jesus was not God’s plan B for mankind; He was God’s original plan from the beginning of time. Revelation 13:8 says that Christ is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. His sacrifice was already foreordained before time even began.
The best gift one can possess is having true Salvation, only found in Christ, because He is all-satisfying. The true Christian life is absolutely resting in everything Jesus did 2,000 years ago when He died in our place, suffering under the wrath of God due unto us, and rose victorious over the grave, and is now seated at the right hand of the Father.
If you are in Christ, you can rejoice not just on Christmas, but every day because of what you possess in Him alone. In Him one is redeemed, forgiven, restored, and a blood-bought child of the Most High God.