“Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you
perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take
refuge in him.” (Psalm 2:12 ESV)
It sometimes happens to the greatest
realities of life … they get reduced to mundane statements that are known in a
recognizable superficial way but not in the power infusing life manner they
were first acknowledged. These same
realities are also sometimes regulated to a certain seasonal place in our daily
living or a type of headline classification fading away over the intervening
months of general activities.
The greatest messages of the realities
of the Christian faith: the powerful redemptive, restorative, and abiding gifts
that come from our Savior to us are often left as a forgotten Christmas gift devoid
of their intended significance for our lives.
We dust them off at Christmas time and delight in their themes but soon
forget these realities were given as celebratory living relational gifts to us
from our God through our Savior.
Today on this day, long past the
Christmas season ... delight in the gifts your Savior brings to your life. Look to your Lord Jesus Christ and ask
yourself on this day, is He truly and really my “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
Father and Prince of Peace?” If He isn’t, He wants to be on this day and on
every other day. He did not come to be a
Christmas Savior, to become a designated perpetual seasonal baby in
manger. He came as a living, redeeming, restoring and abiding Savior. We need Him for
more than a season. We need Him all the
days of our lives and that is why all of our days are His.
We need to fall at the feet of this King
with affection and celebrate that He lifts up and grants us the privilege of
becoming more than simply His child but an heir to His eternal kingdom. Give your Savior the honor that is due Him
and celebrate, for today is Christmas time, no matter what the date on the
calendar might tell you.
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government
shall be upon his shoulder, and his name
shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of
Peace” (Isaiah 9:6 ESV).
Daily Reading Psalm 2 & Isaiah 9
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