Isa 9:6 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.
Isa 9:7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
2 blogs in the same day, how interesting. We are smack bang in the middle of Christmas period and we are now being bombarded with images of Santa and dreary christmas music as we do our christmas shopping in our local malls (seems they always seem to find people who love Boney M to manage the malls). We are also bombarded with a sole focus on the baby Jesus but while this last bit is valid we tend to box Jesus this time of year as just a little baby (yes we all know about the miraculous virgin birth that can not be explained or understood).
Here's the facts: We were all just little babies at one stage in our lives, yet we grew up and developed talents, passions and interests of our own that God has blessed us with and with regards to Jesus it was no different, he spent some time as a little boy listening to what religious scholars had to say and then went on to do carpentry. Later he went on to really begin the work God set out for him and in this he confronts Evil, History, society, and religion. He later after upsetting the pharisees so much suffered a crucifixion so intense but yet defeated evil as we know it by rising 3 days later and paid the price of our sins at the same time. Jesus is not just some smiley gentle person, he was ferocious and for eg. showed this by calling the pharisees "You Brood of vipers" and yet made amazing statements like the following:
Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
What we see is a clear picture that Jesus is indeed God, yet people failed to see it and some still do fail to see it and they tend to be the ones bombarding us this time of year with images of Santa Clause, Boney M, Rudolph the reindeer and putting us to debt by persuading us that our family member needs that expensive gadget that they wont use in a years time. How about a challenge to claim christmas back to what it was and to use it as a celebration of the birth of a saviour, one who confronted every aspect of life and died for our sins.
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