I guess without knowing it I have been going through another series called "A Christmas Message". Who would have though thought that a 16 year old would give birth to a baby boy who would save us all and yet was a virgin. None can fathom this mystery but it happened and who that baby boy turned out to become was one who encountered people of all backgrounds as he ministered to the people.
1. The Shepherds and the wise men - yes he was only a little baby then but that moment changed the hearts of those men as we know it
2.The scholars as a little boy - he did nothing except just sit in the temple to hear them teach
3. Ordinary people - This is the woman at the well, zacchius the tax collector, the 12 disciples. He had light encounters as well as heavy encounters with them but none of them were as harsh as the encounter group as I'm about to mention now!
4. The Pharisees - Shame we pick on them but you cant deny that they were the vilest of them all, said one thing and did another and yet criticised those who did wrong (yet they themselves had done those same things - Hypocrisy).
5. Us
I'm going to touch on point 5, the other day I kind of had one of those intense encounters with God after a split second return of a past issue in my life, and that evening as I sat down, I poured it all out to God and instead of an encounter of condemnation it was an encounter of what I can honestly say was fatherly love like never before. In that moment I was being real with God more then ever. I guess to just be real with ourselves and having a life thats an open book must be the greatest gift to Jesus but it must not just be kept a christmas thing but an everyday thing.
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