Luke 1:32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.
HE was, is and forever will be GREAT! No one has influenced history more than Jesus Christ. As we prepare our hearts to celebrate Christmas, I am sharing a powerful rendering on this by Fred Bock in his writing titled 'One Solitary Life' and added few thoughts at the end.
"Born in an obscure village, He was the child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty years old, and then for three years He traveled around the county, stopping long enough to talk and to listen to people, and help where He could.
He never wrote a book, He never had a hit record, He never went to college, He never ran for public office, He never had a family or owned a house. He never did any of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself. But when He was only thirty-three years old, the tide of public opinion turned against Him, and His friends rejected Him. When He was arrested, very few wanted anything to do with Him. After the trial, He was executed by the State along with admitted thieves. Only because a generous friend offered his own cemetery plot was there any place to bury Him.
This all happened nineteen centuries ago, and yet today He is the leading figure of the human race, and the ultimate example of love. Now it is no exaggeration to say that all the armies that have ever marched, all the navies that have ever set sail, all the rulers that have ever ruled, all the kings that have ever reigned on this earth, all put together have not affected the life of man on earth like One Solitary Life."
May I add...one solitary life that changed history forever!
Has Jesus affected your life? Has the greatness of Jesus touched your life?
People whose lives have not been touched and transformed yet might see Jesus as a 'baby in the manger' even today. But, for us, the lives touched and transformed by Jesus, Christmas is a reminder of HIS GREATNESS and HIS MIGHT and HIS JUSTICE with which HE reigns in heaven now. Our blessed faith and hope is that HE WILL COME AGAIN to take us to be with HIM in eternity! Are you ready?
HE is GREAT! Merry Christmas!
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