A famous American scientist once said, "If you want to send an idea, wrap it up in a person." This is exactly what God did at Bethlehem. He sent unto our lost world the saving truth of His grace, wrapped up in a virgin-born baby ... a baby who, in manhood, said "I AM the Truth."
An anonymous author, in commenting on this One has written, "Longfellow could take a worthless sheet of paper, write a poem on it and make it worth $6,000.00 ... that is genius! Rockefeller can sign his name to a piece of paper and make it worth millions ... that is capital! A mechanic can take a cheap piece of canvas, paint a picture on it and make it worth $1,000,000.00 ... that is art! The Lord Jesus Christ can take a worthless life, put His Spirit into it and make it both a blessing to humanity and fit for citizenship in Heaven ... that is salvation!
The apostle Paul; realizing the truth of this, was inspired to write in 2Corinthians 5.17, "Therefore if any person is [engrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!"
And this is what redemption is all about!
PRAISE! Pg. 550
[All] are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus, - Romans 3.24
If our greatest need had been information,
GOD would have sent us an educator.
If our greatest need had been technology,
GOD would have sent us a scientist.
If our greatest need had been money,
GOD would have sent us a economist.
If our greatest need had been pleasure,
GOD would have sent us an entertainer.
But, our greatest need was forgiveness,
so GOD sent us a Savior.
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