At Last we have reached the Pinnacle of God's Redemption

At Last we have reached the Pinnacle of God’s Redemption

For to you a Savior has been born and you will find him in a manger where animals and the poor are welcomed.  He has not arrived in wealth and honor but as one like you and I who are poor, needy, and all alone in life.   (Lk 2: 15 - 20). 

Who is it that comes first to worship their Savior?   Is it the Pharisees, those who should know the Sacred Scriptures revealing the plan of the God they serve but interpreting it to satisfy their own pleasures of selfishness and greed?  They were the last to find his reality in the Scriptures. 

The Lord, God, who is and was before you and I has reached into our world with a degree of love in spite of our sins.  None of us can say, “But he is God and nothing will touch his divinity!”  Look again; he is 100 % human as well as 100 %  divine.  This is what the Incarnation is all about and from the very start his Mother and step-father are also affected by this journey into the unknown, the path of hard knocks, and to his death which awaits his Blood which will redeem you and me.  

Go into the realm of Temples and find not him; but the very stones that he created and discover all of the greed that has been for unbelievers and the enemies of a God who loved them from the beginning.  This is why Christ came into the world he created where too many adversaries are following the very proponents found in Sodom and Gomorrah who would not repent.   (Gn 18: 20 - 21; 19: ff).   

This Virgin Birth was not to find a ticker-tape parade that welcomed our God into the human 

world.  It became a humble manner of a Creator who was sent to save those who were finding a life of pleasure which surpassed the very Lord who was calling each child back home into eternity.

Take a moment to dwell upon what Christ came to alleviate from human curiosity and falling into an evil that was before man’s reality;  From C.S. Lewis:  (The story in the Book of Genesis rather suggests that some corruption in our sexual nature followed the fall and was its result, not its cause).  What Satan put into the heads of our ancestors was the idea that they could “be like gods” - could set up on their own as if they had created themselves - be their own masters  - invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God.  And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.  (taken from “The Shocking Alternative” from “Mere Christianity).

We shall follow the humanity of Christ for the next 3.5 years of his ministry and will be in complete horror at times when what we have learned as Christians seem to jump off the pages of Scripture.  A lack of righteousness sent him to Calvary;  needed for our redemption.

Ralph B. Hathaway