Unwelcomed King

This is a time when the first few chapters of Matthew and Luke are re-visited. We have a sweet and serene picture in our head of a mother and her child cozily wrapped warm and tended to within a picturesque stable with several animals gazing adoringly on the new born child.

But in reality, was it really as wonderful as it is portrayed in a Kresh, picture or movie? Certainly not. It was dark, dank, and dirty. Mary and Joseph were alone, uncared for medically by midwives and without a room in the town.

Why would a King of such Magnitude, who orchestrates everything and orders the universe create an entrance into the world so desperate and crude?

Perhaps because that's the true state of our world regardless of how glorious we feel it is at times? Perhaps He was making a commentary on what we deem valuable? Perhaps He was showing that even if we wanted to give the Lord of Creation an entrance of splendor the best we could provide from our sinful state, in comparision to His True Majesty, would be no better than a dirty, filthy, unworthy, chaotic mess.

How true it is when we don't know Christ...Our world dark and disorderly, is unwelcoming of who Christ is... We go about our day, busy and flurried...We have no room for Him, we permit Him to play a small part in our world perhaps, but only give him the area in the back ground. Perhaps there is part of us that feel like we should remember the religious reason for the season...so we relegate Jesus to the back cave somewhere in the dark... we gave Him some room . It's the most we will do. Afterall, there is so much we have to tend to, so much work to do, visitors coming, places to go, things to make, prepare, buy and give....

They only time it really hits us, is like the shepherds, while tending to things, God in His mercy shines His glorious Light in our hearts and declares as if by angels Who He is! ... Humbled and even fearful we come to acknowledge that Jesus is not just a new King born, one of thousands, BUT THE KING of KINGS...

Then when it strikes our hearts we are in awe of who He is, with a realization that He Has come to us to save us from our dark and dank world and existance...To proclaim us as His own, to establish a hope and to restore man to Himself.

What Glorious news, what hope and redemption. Then we get it and like those shepherds, run through the town proclaiming all that they had seen and heard from the heavenly messengers...

I encourage you to truly consider what it is that Christ has done, why it was that He came, What it is we celebrate and to give Him room this Holiday (HOLY DAY) season...Not in the background somewhere, but in the best room of your heart!



Check out the website www.GraciousVine.com or www.JoannaFruhauf.com