It is such a lovely thing each year to actually be part of a time and season that men and women the whole world over stop and reflect and actually SING about this wonderful truth! That IN THE LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO " HE APPEARED AND THE SOUL FELT ITS WORTH!"
Can you imagine the GLORYof that night?
The FEAR?
The Worry?
The Shame? The Embarrasment and HUMILIATION?????
There was a REASON there was "NO ROOM" in the Inn for Mary and Joseph as Mary went into labour!
There was a REASON that as Joseph ran from door to door banging on it "Please Cousin! Please Brother! Please Friend! My Wife!! She's in labour PLEASE! HELP US!!!" that no one would open to them, only sneer out through the little window set in the door "SORRY NO ROOM!!!!! NOT HERE! SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!"
NORMAL human compassion would have MADE room for a woman in labour! But this woman was KNOWN to the inhabitants of Bethlehem it was HER city as much as it was JOSEPHS and the inhabitants knew THAT BABY IS ***NOT*** Josephs! Gossip had it that Mary was expecting from a Roman Soldier or even worse FROM A SAMARITAN (!!!!!!) and all the " righteous " people of Bethlehem said "That THING will NOT be born under MY roof! Finally ONE of them said "LET IT BE BORN OUT IN THE STABLES WITH THE OTHER ANIMALS!"
And so the King of Glory was born in a Stable, laid in a feed trough wrapped in swaddling clothes, a man of sorrows acquainted with grief despised and rejected of men from the very moment of his birth..... and yet the night did not go unnoticed!
Luke 2:8-11
"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo THE ANGEL OF THE LORD came upon them and the GLORY of the Lord shone round about them and they were SORE AFRAID And the angel said unto them FEAR NOT for behold I bring you good tidings of GREAT JOY which shall be to ALL PEOPLE For unto you is born THIS DAY in the city of David A SAVIOUR which is Christ the Lord!
Oh how wonderful is our God! How sweet he is! NO ONE alive could possibly say that from the beginning Jesus did not IDENTIFY himself with the lowest of all men!!!!
This Christmas those of you that love the Lord enough to help SPREAD THE GOOD TIDINGS A SAVIOUR HAS BEEN BORN deserve both our thanks and praise without you THE WORLD SIMPLY WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT JESUS OF NAZARETH
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!
From all of us at European Apostolic Outreach
Brother Joseph Conroy, Brother and Sister Brian Shell and family
We Love You All Dearly
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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