1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
The Creator of All things came into the World He created and they did understand.
It always amazes me how blind we can be. Have you ever spent time looking for something and given up only to come back later and see it sitting there in plain view right where you had been looking before.
St. Paul says the wisdom of God is foolishness to man.
This seems more and more true every day. The world’s morality is upside down.
Even when we do get things right we don’t recognize the need to do them in the right order.
St Paul made this very clear in saying, “At just the right time God sent Jesus to redeem the world.”
Satan’s lies are all around us. And they are so crafty.
He even sends us to scripture to see the wrong passages just to lead us down the wrong path.
He wants us to believe Jesus is the enemy and that he is the savior. When, in fact, his end goal is to keep us from being saved by Jesus. His motive is pure malice he just wants to hurt God and hurting God’s beloved humans causes God the most pain.
Here we are in the afterglow of Christmas. God’s pure light, Jesus, has been born.
If the World really believed Christmas was the beginning of our salvation would it be so quick to take down the decorations and move on?
But not only has the darkness not understood, but the darkness has not over taken the light.
This Jesus has broken the power of Satan’s lies. God has proved his love for us in that while we were still sinner Jesus gave his life for us.
My prayer for all of us as we begin a new year is that we continue to press on, and that We would listen to Jesus and hear him declare how much he loves us.
Pastor Mark
The Creator of All things came into the World He created and they did understand.
It always amazes me how blind we can be. Have you ever spent time looking for something and given up only to come back later and see it sitting there in plain view right where you had been looking before.
St. Paul says the wisdom of God is foolishness to man.
This seems more and more true every day. The world’s morality is upside down.
Even when we do get things right we don’t recognize the need to do them in the right order.
St Paul made this very clear in saying, “At just the right time God sent Jesus to redeem the world.”
Satan’s lies are all around us. And they are so crafty.
He even sends us to scripture to see the wrong passages just to lead us down the wrong path.
He wants us to believe Jesus is the enemy and that he is the savior. When, in fact, his end goal is to keep us from being saved by Jesus. His motive is pure malice he just wants to hurt God and hurting God’s beloved humans causes God the most pain.
Here we are in the afterglow of Christmas. God’s pure light, Jesus, has been born.
If the World really believed Christmas was the beginning of our salvation would it be so quick to take down the decorations and move on?
But not only has the darkness not understood, but the darkness has not over taken the light.
This Jesus has broken the power of Satan’s lies. God has proved his love for us in that while we were still sinner Jesus gave his life for us.
My prayer for all of us as we begin a new year is that we continue to press on, and that We would listen to Jesus and hear him declare how much he loves us.
Pastor Mark
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