Read today's devotional and got to this paragraph:
So the meaning of Christmas is not only that God replaces shadows with Reality, but also that he takes the reality and makes it real to his people. He writes it on our hearts. He does not lay his Christmas gift of salvation and transformation down for you to pick up in your own strength. He picks it up and puts in your heart and in your mind, and seals to you that you are a child of God.
Couldn't think of any other song but this one. I've shared it before, but it's truly worth sharing again. Ephesians 1:3-7 says,
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved."
Because a Child was born in the City of Bethlehem, we can celebrate this Christmas as children sealed by the blood that very Child would shed on the cross at the end of the Calvary Road that began at the manger.
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