Merry Christmas – The Process That Birth the Season

Everything surrounding the birth of Christ remains a mystery “magical mystery,” if there is any such thing. From the conception to angels announcing his birth, to stars leading some people to the manger where He was born, everything sounds interesting and magical but it is all truth because it all happened. The more I think on it all, the more I realize it had to be magical because since the time of Adam and Eve when mankind lost fellowship with God, God was again coming down to earth to reconnect with man and this time, in a more involved way. It indeed was a magical night when heaven came down to earth, the beginning of a relationship that even God had never experienced; Him indwelling everyone that chose to have a relationship with Him. This fellowship was even much better and much more beneficial to man than the previous one He had with Adam and Eve. God must have been excited, Himself, for all His goodness that was coming in the way of man because His thoughts toward man are always of good. God, must have indeed been excited. He was again giving man a fresh opportunity to reciprocate the love He always felt for man. The thought of just having all that love returned by man must have pleased God immeasurably. All of this drama that took place in that one night often tends to make us forget that this is just the end of a process which started years before that day.

 

Jeremiah 29: 11 “For I know the plans I have for you, ‘says the Lord.’ They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”

God must have been “desperate” to have many children who could love Him so sincerely that He went to so much trouble to confirm that Jesus was the Messiah that was promised for the reconciliation of man to Him. Despite all the pains God took to prove that Jesus is the promised Messiah, the Only Begotten of the Father, it is interesting to note that Jesus arrived very simply and as a child who was born like any other child and formed by the implantation of a seed. Such a great miracle that would affect the entire world forever and also impact on God adding to His own joy too came so simply and was also a process. One would have thought that it would all happen suddenly just like the return of Jesus Christ but God in His wisdom chose to start with a seed. Despite all the time that had passed from when prophets began to speak, by the Holy Spirit, of the coming of the Messiah to when He was actually born, God did not eliminate the process of His coming or do anything to hasten it. The miracle – Christ, came as a seed that grew for nine months in His mother’s womb, was born and then grew to maturity. God did not expedite the process despite that He, God, was one of the benefactors of the process. I wonder why then we often think God would expedite processes for us. Obviously, there must be some disadvantages to expediting a process that we are unaware of.

 

Habakkuk 2: 3 “The vision is for a future time…If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.”

 

Jeremiah 1: 12 AMP “Then said the Lord to me, you have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over my word to perform it.”

This entire season is indeed a reminder of the fact that His word shall surely come to pass and there is nothing you need to be doing to make it happen other than be who He desires for you to be and doing what He desires for you to do; and He would then be working to ensure the performance of His word. When He said it, He intended to bring it to pass because He cannot lie. It’s just that He starts with a seed and in my opinion, the bigger the miracle the longer it seems to take to bring the entire thing to that conclusion that we call our miracle and/or blessing. Sometimes we forget that it takes a while when we see other people’s miracles manifesting; without thinking of how long they had been waiting and what they went through in that period, we start complaining and loose hope. Sometimes we even feel we have the right to speak things against God that should not be uttered because we are upset but we do ourselves harm in doing all of that because all that is referred to as murmuring and complaining which actually slows down the miracle and may actually cause an abortion of it. I guess it might help to remind ourselves of the process that gave us Christ and the fact that God let it all play out fully. I would dare to suggest that the best way to go through the process or wait for it to unfold is by having an attitude of thanksgiving. Waiting patiently is easier when one has the right attitude of mind.