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by Sandy Shaw
Is not the supreme purpose for the birth of Jesus Christ so relevant and significant this year, as we appear to be facing storms of increasing intensity? The main reason is always important.
When Mary informed her fiancé Joseph that she was carrying a child, Joseph was on the point, quite understandably, of breaking off the engagement. He thought she had been playing around with some other man.
An angel appeared to Joseph and explained exactly what was happening.
Almighty God was breaking through into this broken, pained and suffering world.
God was coming into man’s darkness with light, and it was a light that would never be put out.
Joseph was told not to be afraid regarding what was happening. The child in Mary’s womb is from the Holy Spirit.
She will give birth to a son and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.
Many want to be saved and rescued from everything, except their sins.
People want their problems resolved, dilemmas dissolved, pains healed, sicknesses cured, and all questions answered.
There is nothing wrong with any of that, but Jesus Christ came to save men and women from their sins.
It has been said that the growth in professional counselling over these past years is due to an increasing need for forgiveness.
Man needs to know that he has been forgiven, or can be forgiven.
When forgiveness is experienced, peace can result.
Stress, pressures and tensions, as well as mounting debts, arguments and feuds, can arise during these dark December days.
God sent Jesus Christ with mercy, compassion, love, light, and forgiveness.
Why has man allowed an enemy to distort all that God sought to do in us, and for us, through Jesus?
Sandy Shaw
Nairn Christian Fellowship
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Sandy has a weekly radio talk which can be heard via the Internet on Saturday at 11:40am, New Orleans time, at wsho.com.
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