Christmas Morning: Son Rise on a New Dayਨਮੂਨਾ

Jesus lives eternally. There has never been a time when He did not exist. Of course Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but that was just an arrival in human form: His full divinity taking on full humanity, not the beginning of His existence. Since this is the case, we see God making promises related to Jesus’ arrival throughout the Old Testament.

Consistently, God promised His people Israel that one day He would send the promised Messiah. This Savior would “crush the head of the snake” (Genesis 3:15), “reign on David’s throne forever” (2 Samuel 7:16), and “wash their sins white as snow” (Isaiah 1:18). Even the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) were given promises of worldwide blessing through their family line - ultimately through the coming Messiah (Genesis 12:1-3).

At the conclusion of Mary’s song in Luke 1, she sings of the help her Son would be for Israel, and how He would fulfill the Old Testament prophecies to Abraham and others. God would make good on those promises through the very same Jesus who was resting in Mary’s womb!

Christmas is a season of planning. You plan parties, gifts, travel, meals, and charitable activities. It is a full time of the year. In very few years do we actually do all the holiday activities we plan. But for that very first Christmas morning, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, through the earthly life He lived, and through His second coming (which has yet to transpire), God fulfilled and will fulfill every single one of the plans and promises that He made.

Our eternal God can be trusted to keep His promises, and for this reason, we rejoice!