Christmas 2018

Last night when singing at Brookdale Retirement Center in Mount Vernon, Ohio I mentioned that December is not really when Christ was born. A man in the audience asked me when I thought Jesus was born? I said that nobody knows but I have read most scholars think He was born in August. The man suggested that Jesus was born in the spring. I ask how that could be and he said, that according to our Bibles the Shepherds were out watching over their sheep by night. He went on to say, That the only time Shepherds would be out, at night, with their sheep is when the sheep are giving birth and that Sheep give birth in the spring.

I did not know that sheep give birth in the spring nor did I recognize the reason why the shepherds were in the field keeping watch over their flocks by night. Jesus is the great shepherd who watches over His sheep. How fitting it is to learn that the Shepherd Himself was born as are the sheep, in the spring.

Now I am wondering about Jesus’s death and resurrection, did He also died and was also resurrected by God the Father in the spring?

I know when I write this next set of words that some of you will shut me down. As soon as I write what you disagree with, many of you will click another link and be gone. I sincerely hope and also do pray that one day you will see for yourself the error of your way and come back to this blog and begin reading again about what I write next.

The greatest gift we can ever give someone is the gift that comes to them through knowing Jesus Christ. To find someone who has not accepted Jesus as their LORD and Master and show them what it means to repent of their current and former life and to come to Jesus is simply the best gift we can give another. There is no greater gift of Love that can be given. To show another person that all the mistakes they have ever made with their life can be forgiven and forgotten and that they can start over their life with a completely cleaned history, such as is given to a new born baby is just fabulous.

This gift from God through the gift giver’s effort, is going to remove every self criticism the recipient has ever had. God is going to remove these criticisms right out of their life. Every error they have made is forgotten too. Once a person comes to Jesus Christ their past just disappears from both themselves and from the memory of God, the Creator of us all. Those who will come to Christ will be as if reborn. Given back their life to start over anew and also given the ability and guidance needed to live well into the future by learning the ways of God through proper Bible usage.

No person can clean up their life on their own. They do not have the ability to fix themselves. No matter how many Psychologists or Psychiatrist they visit, no matter how many religious people they interview, no matter how much drinking or pill taking they indulge in, no matter how much discipline they force themselves to do, they cannot clean their past with their own will. They cannot become a new creature, turn over a new leaf as they say, and just become a new person. Why? Because they lack the Spirit that comes only from God. Without this Spirit, all things remain as they are. These people will go to their death haunted by their past. 

All the people that think they can make themselves perfect will continue fail and to make errors. All those who think they can pick themselves up by their bootstraps and change their own lives will never be emotionally happy with themselves. They will continue to remember all their past and will continue to suffer because of that past. (A past that could have just occurred an hour ago.) God will not help them. God has said (Genesis 4:7) that you can do things His way or you can go your own way but you go it your own way you will go it alone without Him. In short, all these people continue to sin. They cannot help but fail. They have not the power that comes from God.

Sin is controlled through the power of the Spirit that comes from God.

God, through His Son Jesus Christ, will only send His Spirit to a person when that person accepts Jesus Christ as their LORD.

The greatest gift one person can give another is the gift that comes from knowing Jesus Christ our Saviour.