THE DAWN OF REDEEMING GRACE

THE DAWN OF REDEEMING GRACE
The Christmas Story is not an earthly tale of Santa Clause or Frosty but the celebration of eternal hope to a spiritually lost world.  While singing the old classic carol, Silent Night, a phrase in the third verse caught my attention - ..."with the dawn of redeeming Grace."  This sums up so neatly the truth of the Christmas Story.  Christ's birth was the dawn  of the New Testament, God the Father reaching out in love to His creation when His creation loved Him not.  It was the dawn or opening act of the new covenant of grace produced , directed, and written by the Father through the role of Jesus, His beloved Son.  It was the dawn of redemption for our failure to love God with all of our being in favor of lesser earthly things.  It was the dawn of grace, love poured out by the Father through the Son to mankind that is not deserved or cannot be earned but presented as a gift.  It was the dawn of reconciliation with the Father through the Son because our sin separated us from His holiness and perfection.
  Those in contemporary society who have made it made their mission to silence the traditional Christmas carols from old is to try to silence the voice of the Almighty.  The words of spiritual truth either harden or humble the heart towards God.  May this Christmas season be the dawn of humility of your heart submitting to a God who spared not His only Son as a sacrifice to demonstrate the love and forgiveness He freely offers as a gift and may you experience "the dawn of redeeming Grace."

"As it is written: 'There is none righteous, no, not one;'  Romans 3:10

"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"  Romans 3:23

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."   Romans 6:23

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."    Romans 5:8

"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,"  
Ephesians 2:8

"that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."                         Romans 10:9