There is no one higher than our God and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is he MOST HIGH God. And yet when God sent His Son into the world, He sent Him to the lowest. He was the creator of the world. John 1:3 says: “All things were made by him; nd without him as not any thing made that was made.” And yet He came in the womb of a young woman who was regarded as a woman of “low estate” (Luke 1:48).
He came to the lowest room on earth, a stable. He came to the most insignificant town in Isarael. Micah 5:2 states: “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be LITTLE among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel.”
He is the One who is THE GOD WHO IS ENOUGH who “richly gives us all things to enjoy” and who “owns the cattle on a thousand hills” and yet He came helpless, needy. He had to be held. He could not do anything for Himself. He had to be suckled at the breast to receive sustenance. What humility. What lowliness. As we remember the birth of Christ, we had better do away with all our pride for it shows how God loves humility.
And yet it is amazing that in most of the prophetic Scriptures that tell of Christ’s coming, they speak of His lowliness in coming through the womb of a lowly woman but they don’t end there! I have been amazed anew to see that they also speak of the ultimate end of the world when Christ Jesus will rule over the new and resurrected earth and we will reign with Him in our resurrected bodies. What hope we have because Jesus came. What wonder. What glory.
The angel came to Mary and said to her: “Behold, thou shalt conceived in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and OF HIS KINGDOM THERE SHALL BE NO END” (Luke 1:31-33).
We see the same messaged in Isaiah 9:6: ”For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder . . . Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth EVEN FOREVER.”
The birth of Jesus brought in the hope of our eternal destiny. One day Jesus Christ will sit on the throne of David (but it will be His throne) and rule over Israel and all the Gentiles who have put their trust in Him.
As we turn our hearts back to that amazing night that Jesus was born, we also must turn out minds to the eternal kingdom that is to come. Are we ready to be included in this eternal kingdom? If we are, are thinking about it, dreaming about it, learning more about it, looking for it? This life is only a preparation for the real life, the eternal kingdom to come. Preparing for it should be our greatest goal in life.
Be blessed today as we remember His glorious birth.
NANCY CAMPBELL