Returning home early from work, I visited the Granny Annexe to ask the occupant if she would like a cup of tea. Receiving a positive response I returned to spend some time with her and realised she was watching a Christmas service from Cambridge. This was not the usual “Nine Lessons and Carols” but equally enjoyable.
The brief message was based on Luke 2 verse 11. Today in the town of David, a Saviour has been born to you, he is the Messiah, the Lord. The speaker said something like this, “The miracle is not that it was the town of David, that a Saviour has been born, or even that he is the Messiah, the Lord. No, the miracle is that the Saviour has been born to you.”
Paul, writing in the book of Galatians 2:20 says “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me“. In the film, Shrek, I think it was the donkey who called out, “Pick me, pick me”. And as believers we can also say “And thank God, He did”.
A friend of mine told me recently that while shopping in a local supermarket, a few folk passed by wearing Christmas jumpers. He said, `One phrase came to mind: `Christmas—the gift of a Saviour. Savour that gift.’
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, we thank you for the amazing gift to us (to me) of a Saviour. May we savour that gift every day, AMEN