Why Jesus was Born

Why Jesus was Born

Why was Jesus Born, and did he come into the world? (John 18:36)

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. “ God isn’t there.” What if God weren’t here on earth? What if he never came to set us free? If you think that people are cruel now, imagine what it would be like without the presence of God. You think we are brutal to each other now, imagine the world without the Holy Spirit. You think there is loneliness and despair and guilt now, imagine life without the touch of Jesus. No forgiveness. No hope. No acts of kindness. No words of love or encouragement. No more food given in his name. No more songs sung to his praise. No more deeds done in his honor. If God took away his angels, his grace, his promise of eternity, and his servants, what would the world be like?

In hell there would be no one to comfort you and no music to soothe you. A world where poets don’t write of love and minstrels don’t sing of hope, for love and hope were passengers on the last ship. The final vessel has departed, and the anthem of hell has only two worlds: “if only.”

According to Jesus hell known only one sound, the “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 22:13). From hell comes a woeful, unending moan as its inhabitants realize the opportunity they have missed. What the would give for one more chance. But that chance is gone (Hebrews 9:27). ***Max Lucado***

It all happened in a moment, a moment like no other in which God became a man. While the creatures of earth walked unaware, divinity arrived. God has given eyebrows, elbows, two kidneys and a spleen. He stretched against the walls and floated in the amniotic fluids of his mother. God came near. For many people it is hard to think of Jesus in such a light. It is much...

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...e will be like him. Your heart will be pure, your words will be like jewels, your thoughts will be like treasures.

You will be just like Jesus. You will, at long last, have a heart like his. Envision the heart of Jesus and you’ll be envisioning your own heart Heaven is the perfect place for poeple made perfect. Heaven is populated by those who let God change them. Arguments will cease and jealously will no longer exist. Suspicious won’t surface, for there will be no secrets. Every sin is gone. Every insecurity within ourselves and our hearts will be forgotten and left behind. Every fear is past just pure hope. No wonder the angels are rejoicing when one sinner repents; they know another work of art will soon grace the gallery of God. They now what heaven truly holds. Jesus rejoices that we are headed to heaven, but he equally rejoices that we are saved from hell.