Christmas is already behind us. Those who had gifts have already unwrapped their boxes and now we are looking forward to a new year. More celebrations...
But let's go back a bit and ask ourselves, what does Christmas really mean to me?
Some would simply say, "nothing " and move on. Christmas is to many a chance to meet with friends, eat nyama choma, get high on something....
Some will even tell you that Christmas is not the day christ was born. Suppose it's not? We do not have Jesus's birth certificate nor do we have the Jewish Callender, we only know that he was born. We celebrated that fact, and we don't have a problem doing so in any month.
Here comes the third question, or is it the second? Would Jesus have celebrated his birthday, as we do? I suppose not.
Jesus's birth marked the beginning of his humiliation stage. Having lived the life of God, as creator of the world, he now had to live in the limitations of a human body. His rank was drastically lowered from lord of all to a position where mankind is: a little lower than the angels (Hebrews 2:7-9)
He would get angry, hungry, feel sad, and be limited by time and space. To be sure, he was still God, born like us(galatians 4:-5)
Before we could talk about redeeming those under the law, we should talk about the ultimate human weakness: death. God can not die, but Jesus OBEYED even death (philippians 2:8)
This is where my redemption came from. He took my place on the cross and gave me his position in heaven. Pilate found nothing to accuse him of, the law and the prophets found none either, yet God heaped all the sins of the world on him.
Because he was judged on my behalf I will not stand in judgment. He has become the end of the law so that there may be righteousness to the likes of me, who believe *(Romans 10:4)
Am waiting for Easter, which stands for my redemption and glorification.....
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