In my search to get my paws on "Christmas" I had to start at the beginning to really reflect on the events that led up to the First Christmas. My children and I started doing this 7 day Christmas gift "Nativity" called "What God wants for Christmas". The very first box that we opened was the Angel. We read in Luke how God sent Gabriel the Angel to Mary to tell her about Jesus. The angel came from heaven to earth to tell about Jesus who was also coming from heaven to earth. God did not want Mary to find out about her child in a way that expressed normality. She could've found out by morning sickness or the way most of us find out when our monthly visitor just decides not to visit. HaHa!!! But this was not a normal Birth, it was the birth of God's only son.
But What God is showing me now is that this was also the first encounter of accepting Jesus, and Mary had to be prepared to accept Jesus not to fear the angel and to have faith to believe in what she could not see. This is the beginning of Salvation Our hearts must be prepared to hear and accept the Gospel she had to be given the faith just as God gives us the faith for salvation and she had to be given the peace and assurance that it was not what she had don but what God had done in placing this very Savior in her womb.
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