Inspirational -The Birth Of Christ

He didn’t come to Jupiter

He didn’t come to Mars,

He didn’t come to the sun or moon

Or any of the stars.

Of all the vast created host

From His own hand unfurled

By Jesus Christ, His only Son,

God came into our world.

He came because He wanted most

To take away sin’s blight;

To frustrate every devilish scheme

And to put our wrong world right.

His own volition brought Him from

His throne with splendor pearled

But only invited will

He come into my world (Anonymous)

THE LIVING WATER THAT SATISFIES

JOHN 4:1-30

A drunkard sat at a table in a bar with several of his companions. Soon his wife came in and set a covered dish before him. “Jack,” she said, “You seem to be too busy to come home for support, so I brought your supper to you.” She then left the saloon (drinking bar), while everybody laughed. Jack invited his companions to share the meal with him. He removed the cover and the dish was empty. Instead, he found in the dish a note from his wife, which said, “I hope that you enjoy your supper. This is just what your wife and children have at home.”

Yes, Satan’s dishes are always empty in the end, but when you come to Jesus, you will find that all of His dishes are full of good things for this life and the life to come (W. Herschel Ford, Simple Sermons on the Gospel of John).

IDENTIFICATION WITH SINNERS

This is the great revival must emphasize. Without repentance, the Body of Christ is doom to limp when it was designed to fly, to drag when it was called to draw, to drift when it should set sails to catch every wind of the Spirit of God.

The innocent Lamb of God took your sins upon His own shoulders and suffered form them. He gave His life for you. It was a life exchanged for a life—the life of the Son of God exchanges for the life of a miserable, hell-deserving sinner. And what response is appropriate to such a sacrifice? (Richard Owen Roberts, Revival).

TRIALS

God never wastes suffering, He adds, “Trials work for us, not against us. . . . God permits trials that He might build character into our lives. He can grow a mushroom overnight, but it takes many years---and many storms—to build a mighty oak” (Warren Wiersbe).

A young man with an incurable disease was reported to have said, “I don’t think I would be afraid to die if I knew what to expect after death” (Billy Graham, Till Armageddon).

WHEN FRIENDS ARE GONE

You may have heard it said that a person does not really know his friends until the bottom drops out. I think there is great truth to that. All of us have experienced the pain of discovering that people we thought would be faithful—no matter what—were simply “fair-weather friends.” You know friends whose loyalty hinges upon the climate of the circumstances. As long as the relationship is enjoyable, they are with you all the way (Charles Stanley, How to Handle Adversity).

WHAT CHRIST DID FOR US ON THE CROSS

Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law, and so to be holden under the same that we could never be delivered from it by our own power, sent His only Son into the world and laid upon Him all the sins of all people, saying: Be you Peter that denier; Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor; David that adulterer; that sinner who did eat the apple in Paradise; that thief who hanged upon the cross; and briefly, be thou the person who has committed the sins of all men; see therefore that you pay and satisfy them (Martin Luther).

LOVE AND MORALITY

Love accepts a person as he or she is. But it would equally be a failure of love to accept an alcoholic as he is and be unconcerned about his changing his lifeclass. Love does not leave a person on a path of self-destruction. So with God and His relationship with people. He accepts them as they are but will not leave them as they are—just because He loves them and has in mind for them nothing less than a new creation (Morris J. Niedenthal, Preaching the Story).