Pastor's Corner

for Sunday 26th
Every year we celebrate Christmas – the birth of Jesus. And every year we try hard to keep fresh in our hearts the shear wonder of this event! God in human skin! Immanuel, God with us! What an amazing truth! But, what is the significance of this baby born in Bethlehem? What is the message that God wants us to understand from the fact that He became flesh and lived among us? The Bible tells us that God’s creation declares irrefutably that God exists. Paul tells us that there is no excuse for dismissing the truth of God’s existence. So, what does Jesus, born of a woman in a little town called Bethlehem, say about God that the creation cannot tell us? Through creation we believe that there IS a God, through Jesus we believe IN God. Believing that there is a God and believing IN God are two different things. The baby Jesus tells me something about the kind of person God is, and, the baby Jesus tells me that God who created me and who knows me intimately wants me to know Him! He wants me to share every moment of my life with Him. He wants me to know what my purpose in life is. He teaches me these things by living life with me. A man who was losing his battle with leukemia put it this way, "I have learned that life is not like a VCR, you can't fast forward the bad parts. But I have also learned that Jesus Christ is in every frame, and right now that's enough."
How do I know that Jesus is in every frame? I know because of the baby Jesus.
Pastor Don.