Peacemakers
who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.
James
3:18
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Peacemakers
who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.
James
3:18
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THE
WORD BECAME FLESH
The first Christmas marked
the end of the age of expectation of the fulfilment of the promises of
God to His people. Christmas stands between the two ages of the faith
journey. It divided times (ages) into two great parts of word story, the
B.C. (Before Christ) and the A.D. (Anno Domini-the year of the Lord).
All time after the first Christmas is known as 'the year of the Lord'
stressing its effect. If it is the year of the Lord, then it is the year
of salvation, redemption, peace and joy.
No one, even
an atheist, could avoid acknowledging the fact of Christ's birth because
of its historic concreteness. The last thing an atheist would like to
speak about is the existence of God; and yet he cannot be excused from
using the Christian calendar in his world history. Whether he likes it
or not, all history is written in terms of B.C. and A.D.
But what happened
at Christmas? To begin with, at Christmas, the timeless and limitless
God became part of our history getting Himself in our time and space while,
as a principle, God as a pure Spirit couldn't be subject to time and space.
Since the cry of the little Child Who was born in the manger at Bethlehem,
God started to communicate with us in our language on equal terms as ours.
Since that first Christmas night, God became visible, touchable, audible
to us. Long ago He had confirmed to His people that He is a God at hand
not only of far away (cf. Jer 23:23). Now, at the appointed time, at Christmas,
the incredible story of God becoming a man, the invisible becoming visible,
was enfolded. That was the magic of Christmas, the Creator of the universe
taking the created body of ours through the humble collaboration of a
maiden from Nazareth.
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