During Christmas, share God’s love.

 

We spread the Light of the world, Jesus Christ, by sharing his hope, peace and joy through our testimony and the examples of our lives. But ultimately, we spread God’s light, by sharing God’s love during Christmastide.

 

God shared his love for us, and for his entire creation, by “sharing” his Son with us. Giving his Son to become one of us, to be born for us, teach us and guide us, to die for us and conquer for us, is God’s amazing love declaration to a human race in dire need of the light and the love of our Lord.

 

Luke 1: 31 - 33: “The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favour with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High God. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

 

God so much loved the world that he gave us his only Son...

 

The Son of the Almighty demonstrated sacrificial love during his ministry on earth, showing us the loving character of his kingdom that will never end.

Christmas reminds us to do what Jesus is doing, as we remember what he did when he ministered on earth. We are reminded to be kind, selfless and sharing. It is a time to practice how to love as God loved us, by giving us his most precious gift, his only Son. As God is love, let us become love also.

 

The Gospel according to John says:

“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” – John 13:34-35

 

The Apostle Paul teaches:  "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Love never fails." - I Corinthians 13: 4,8.

 

As we celebrate Christmas, we express our need, even our desperate hunger, for God to love us, despite whom we are and what we became. The Child of hope, peace and joy is the confirmation of the divine love of God. Our God loved us even when we were his enemies, when we were rebellious sinners and while we still were determined to undermine his never-ending Kingdom.

 

It is his love and his mercy that brought us into the fold and made us family, sons and daughters, of God in the highest. It is the love that reconciled us with God, in Christ Jesus, our Redeemer.

We look with hope to the coming of God the Son into our hearts, our lives, our Churches and our nation. We receive the son of David as the only Son of God. We welcome him with joyful hearts filled with love and hope. 

We welcome Jesus Christ with hearts that are at peace with God!