How Many Kings Would Do This?

Christmas time... a great time of year, yet the most misunderstood time of year.. We Christians rail about the secular takeover of Christmas, but aren't we just as guilty of that? So many "things" take our attention away from the fact that God became Man   ... Christ came into the world to save sinners 

(1 Timothy 1:15)  ... Are you one of the sinners He has saved? If you are, we need God to call us back to the real meaning of this day. The birth of Jesus Christ, our sin - bearer. We died that we might live! Make sure.. really sure, that you celebrate Christmas everyday by remembering that God emptied out Heaven to come and rescue you. Some key passages to meditate on are:

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

                                                                                              (2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV)

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2:5-10 ESV)

          The Christmas song, "How Many Kings?" illustrates these verses so well:                                                                                              

 How many kings step down from their thrones?

How many lords have abandoned their homes?
How many greats have become the least for me?
And how many gods have poured out their hearts
To romance a world that is torn all apart
How many fathers gave up their sons for  me?                                                                         

Let's see another King do that? ....  Have a blessed Christmas!