I get weary of all the fuss at Christmas over the buying, the schedule, the frenzy. This year, I’ve tried to focus on what really happened 2000 years ago. Here’s how Paul described it to Christians at Colossi:
He is God.
“He is the image of the invisible God.”
He is creator of the visible and invisible universe
“For by Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible;
He controls earthly kingdoms.
“Whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, all things were created by him and for him.”
He is sustainer of the universe
“He is before all things and in Him all tings hold together.
He’s head of the church
“And He is the head of the body, the church.”
He is eternal
“He is the beginning and the firstborn from the dead.”
He is pre-eminent
“So that in everything He might have supremacy.”
He is 100% God
“For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in Him.”
He came to reconcile sinners to God.
“And through him to reconcile to himself all things by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”
He is your Savior
“Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in His sight.”
This is why we celebrate His birth!
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