Christmas 4

God said, “Light be.”
Light was.

When God set the universe in motion, He spoke it from within His eternal, self-existent heart. Matter and energy appeared at His command. The word which He spoke continues to maintain and expand the universe in which we live.

Man was different. God did not speak Man into existence. He formed Man (by hand?) out of the earth and blew into this shell a piece of Himself. The breath of God transformed Man into a living soul.

Perhaps God could speak a creative word and mankind would be pardoned of its rebellion. He did not choose to do so. Once again, for the sake of Man, God took matters into His own hands.

“ For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.”

So to a Bethlehem manger salvation came. They called His name Jesus.