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A Bed Time Story for Christmas


At this time of the year I thought it would be a good time to review the reasons why Jesus decided to come to earth as man.  I decided to retell the story more geared for children hopefully you will agree and maybe just tell it to your child or grandchild this Christmas Eve, so they will understand that yes this is the time that Santa brings them toys and that is great, but the important part of the holiday is to celebrate the greatest gift that they will ever receive the birth of our Savior, Jesus.



    Many thousands of years ago God decided to create the universe and all the life including man. The man He created was Adam and saw that His creation needed a help mate someone to go through life with him as a companion and that he could share all of his responsibilities with, so God created Eve. God told Adam and Eve they could eat from any plant except from the tree of knowledge, He warned them that if they did eat from this tree they would die. Now Satan who use to be one of God’s angels but fell due to his own wants, convinced Eve that the tree would make her and Adam like God, so she took fruit from the tree and ate it then gave some to Adam to eat which he did even though he knew that God had forbid him to do so. God removed them from paradise because by their actions they had allowed sin to enter the world and if God hadn’t and we ate form the tree of life we would have had to live forever in our fallen form.



   Sometime later, God made a covenant with Abraham saying that his descends would be God’s chosen people and the Jewish people were born.  The Jewish people became slaves to the Egyptians during the course of time and after God sent Moses as his emissary to free the people and lead them to Mount Sinai he gave them the laws one of which stated in order to be forgiven for sin you had to sacrifice a young lamb unblemished. 

 

  Now since the day that man had sinned God promised a Messiah who would be our savior. He first promised it to Eve. The promise was repeated throughout the old testament especially through the profits like Micha, Zechariah, and Isaiah.  Everyone of them repeating God’s promise for a savior.



Now we go to about two thousand years ago, Caesar ordered that all men under Roman rule this included the Jewish people had to go to the town of their birth, so they could be counted for a census and taxed. Joseph whose wife Mary was heavily pregnant and about to have her first child had to go to Bethlehem. The trip had been hard and when Joseph and Mary arrived they were tired, and Mary was starting to have labor but, because of all of the people in town for the census there was no room in any of the inns and the only accommodations they could find was in a stable. Sometime during the night   The Lord Jesus was born. He was wrapped in a swaddling clothe and laid in a manger for his bed.



  Jesus was no ordinary child he was born for one purpose to cleanse the world of our sins. He who was sinless would take on our sins and become the perfect sacrificial lamb. In a short thirty-two years. The day he went to the cross he took every sin man has ever done and will ever do with him and because of this we will never have to face the ultimate death and will live forever with Jesus and the Father.  And because we believe we will never have to fear God’s wraith but will be able to rejoice in his loving grace.



  So perhaps you can take a few minutes to reflect on what the birth of the baby Jesus meant for all of us this Christmas morning and give a little prayer of thanks  before you open the gifts you have received  and remember no matter what you receive for Christmas  even if it is the most popular greatest video game system  or even if it is a brand new cherry red Corvette with all the bells and whistles  it pales in comparison to the gift that baby Jesus gave us two thousand years ago and is still giving us today the gift of salvation and everlasting life in paradise.



 May God bless you and your Family this Christmas, and may you and your family have a safe and blessed holiday season.  Merry Christmas.



 PS. This story is not a direct biblical account but a short synopsis all of the elements in the story is to best of my knowledge and belief is biblically correct.














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