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Tuesday... They didn't really realize what they were celebrating!


1 John 2:2 (NIRV), "He gave his life to pay for our sins. But he not only payed for our sins. He also paid for the sins of the whole world."

Tuesday... They didn't really realize what they were celebrating!

And we may not either.

Babies are very special. We see them but we do not realize their potential. They are babies. And I believe that was true of everyone who was celebrating this birth that we are also celebrating. This was a baby.

When my son and then my daughter were born, I had no way of knowing what they were going to become as they grew up. They were babies who were totally dependant on mom and dad. And we now also have four granddaughters that have their lives ahead of them. And God has placed within them great potential just as he has all babies who are born.


Now I think all of those at that stable had some idea that this birth that we are celebrating today was someone with great potential. I mean there were all these angels and then there was this star and then the conversations that his parents, Mary and Joseph had with angels. But nobody really knew what his birth was all about. But God did.

Now in my reading this morning I came across the reason why this baby was born. John, one of the 12 Apostles who spent three year of their lives with the adult Jesus wrote four books in the Bible. One was about his time with Jesus and then three letters and in the first letter, 1 John 2:2 (NIRV) he writes, "He gave his life to pay for our sins. But he not only payed for our sins. He also paid for the sins of the whole world."

Now verse 1 says, "My dear children, I'm writing this to you so that you will not sin. But suppose someone does sin. Then we have a friend who speaks to the Father for us. He is Jesus Christ, the Blameless One." Jesus was that baby and He is God's Son and God sent him to earth to show us our potential when and if we obey God and then to die for us as a sacrifice for also our potential, to not obey him in other words to sin. Yes, His Father really loved him but he also really loves us.

Verse 12 says, "Dear children, I'm writing to you because your sins have been forgiven, they have been forgiven because of what Jesus has done." Yes, we are celebrating a baby who came so that we might have life both here and forever. Verse 23 says, "And here is what God has promised us. He has promised us eternal life." That is why Jesus came as a baby.

Over in 1 John 1:8-9 he writes, "Suppose we claim we are without sin. Then we are fooling ourselves. The truth is not in us. But God is faithful and fair. If we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins. He will forgive every wrong thing we have done. He will make us pure."

Yes, that is why this baby was born. We are celebrating our potential life because of this baby. John 3:16 says, "God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son. Anyone who believes may have eternal life in him." This is what we are celebrating! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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