The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory~ John 1:14

The advent season has begun. They joy of everything Christmas-y has begun in the streets and the shopping malls. Though for the believer, Christ’s birthday celebration is alive in our hearts every day—not just in December.

In thinking about our Lord, we understand his ways are certainly not our ways, and the more we dwell in his word and contemplate his birth, the more we can appreciate the sacrifice of the suffering servant, who came to fulfill his father’s wishes—to save the lost and dying.

How unfathomable to comprehend the path of Jesus to reconcile us to the Father. What a marvelous mystery that he would condescend to earth but to come here in the form of a man and live among us? Is not his glory too superior? He left paradise for this?

At some point this winter season when our little town of Phoenixville is glistening in a blanket of whiteness, may we understand that because of Jesus’s blood, a believer’s sins are even whiter than the brilliance of the snowfall.

May every step you take be with Jesus…adopting his examples of love to the brethren, especially, and aslo to the world as you travel the rest of your life.