What if Christmas is true?
What if the story is real?
What then?
Not the story about Santa and his elves, but the christmas flowers usa story, the one about the Baby being born in a manger in Bethlehem.
What if the birth of the Christ child is not merely a heartwarming tale, but the day in history upon which and by which all other history is measured?
What if God is not a debate but the Divine, not a fable or a philosophy, but fact?
What if God had indeed spoken the universe into existence?
What if, by specific design and intent, God had created Earth, and Man upon the Earth?
What if we honestly are God’s children, created in His image, just like the Bible says?
What if Lucifer’s war against God is actually ongoing, and like all cowardly terrorists, Lucifer is seeking to hurt his foe by waging a destructive and deceitful war against the ones God loves, His children?
What if God had chosen the names by which He is known so that they would not be mere slogans but powerful statements of purpose and comfort? Yahweh, the great I Am. Emmanuel, the God Who is with us. Jesus, the God Who saves.
What if, incredibly, God had expressly wanted to be with us here on Earth so that later we could be with Him in Heaven?
What if it God had strategically planned for Jesus to be born under a cloud of innuendo to a poor couple living in a occupied nation so that absolutely everyone who ever learned of Him would know that nothing about the circumstances of their birth would disqualify them in the eyes of God?
What if the reason the local shepherds and the wise men from afar were selected by God to celebrate Jesus’ birth was so that all people, in all strata of society, from all nations of the worlds would know that He wants them to join in His joy?
What if Isaiah’s prophecy is as true today as it was nearly eight hundred years before that Christmas birth in Bethlehem when Isaiah said: “For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace”?
What if the only reason that Jesus was born to us as a baby was so that He could die for us a man?
What if no amount of good works or religious activity can get you into Heaven?
What if the only worthy act you can do and the single godly work that you must do is the same one Jesus told to His disciples, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
What if Jesus was giving a clear and accurate report when He said, “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day”?
All of that, combined, is the christmas flowers usa blogs story.
What if Christmas is true?
What then?
Sharman’s column runs every Thursday. He practices law in Culpeper.
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