God’s Power Of Love Is Forgiveness - Christmas

God’s power of love is forgiveness - Christmas

Christmas and family go together, families meet together and enjoy the festivities, enjoy the food and drink, enjoy the company and love for each other.

Christmas is all about reconciliation putting aside family disputes as love is the name of the game.

Christmas reminds us of God’s love for us as part of His family, we are Children of God and that’s why we call Him, Father – Abba, daddy.

Abba our Daddy gave His only Son, Jesus to be born as we our born in a very humble and lowly stable.

The Incarnation, God becoming a human being in Jesus, what a wonderful example of God’s reconciliation to us, and to me!

God knew the only way to bring humanity back into His family was for Him to make the first move.

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, Christmas - what a gift, a gift above all gifts, the most generous gift of all, the giving of self.

Christmas is a season of joy, we sing special songs, dance for joy, give presents and receive; all encapsulated in the season of LOVE.

And it all starts with YOU, with me - love is the foundation of any family, any community, any society, any nation, any religion - love can bind us together in a very unique way - in the power of God's love.

Love is all around as it should be day by day and it all started with reconciliation, forgiveness – the putting aside of deeds done and looking forward to joy in the future.

God gave His Son to be born as we are born, to live as we live, to suffer as we suffer, and to be tempted as we are tempted.

God through Jesus knows that Love is the only way, the only way to reconciliation, to forgiveness – that’s why Jesus died to forgive us our sins.

Christmas is just the start of things to come, God reveals His love for us in the birth of Jesus and the proof of that love comes at Easter.

Does St Paul in 1Corrinthians 13* have the answer?

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but do not have love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I do not have love, I've gotten nowhere.

So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all His mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I do not have love, I'm nothing.

Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Love doesn't have a swelled head,

Love doesn't force itself on others, Love isn't always "me first," Love doesn't fly off the handle, Love doesn't keep score of the sins of others,

Love doesn't revel when others grovel,

Love takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Love puts up with anything, Love trusts God always, Love always looks for the best, Love never looks back, But keeps on going to the end.

Love never dies.

Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit.

We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.

Love never ends - do I love in this way that Paul describes? Do I live the real meaning of Christmas?

Thank God for Christmas, thank God for Jesus

*taken from the ‘Message’ and abridged