posted Dec 20, 2016, 6:45 PM by Grant Garber
“The Lord works in strange ways His wonders to perform.” - God’s actions in history are often strange.
- When God acts, the acts are wonderful.
- No event in Scripture better illustrates the truth of that phrase than the Incarnation.
The wonders of the Christmas story -- - - Little did Caesar Augustus realize that his census should be the means whereby prophecy was fulfilled.
- The wonder of the Christmas story is that God actually came into recorded history, born of the Virgin Mary, in a stable outside the city of Bethlehem.
- God works His purposes among people that are willing and those that are unwilling.
- Little did the shepherds realize that they would form the reception committee for the Christ Child.
- Here we see the inclusiveness of the Gospel. It is good news not to a few but for all.
- The angel’s words remind us that it is God that comes to men and women and not the opposite.
- When He comes, those who receive Him find themselves the beneficiaries of privilege and wonder.
- Our response to God, when He comes to us, must be one of obedience.
- Little did the world realize that the star that shone so brightly over Bethlehem was the star announcing the birth of the Christ Child.
- So much of what goes on around us, much of which is very important, goes unnoticed by the majority of people.
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