A CHILD IS BORN...

Two days to the celebration of the birth of Christ, the Lord, the Messiah:

               "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, Counsellor,
                Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Is. 9:6 NKJV

Whilst we are going to concentrate on His birth, I wish all of you in Russia, China, Japan, Latvia, Ukraine, Moldova, Equador, Canada, Brazil, USA, United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, India, Australia, South Africa, Namibie, New Zealand, in fact, all over the world, to also think on Him as Father God's GIFT to you, each and every one individually.

He, the Son of God, was given to us as our Government - who will provide for us; whose spiritual laws of love, humility and service we are to honour and revere; on whose shoulder rested the guilt and sin and sickness and disease and unrighteousness of the whole world - and Who was willing to pay the price to redeem us all. He was given to us as Wonderful - the Person to worship and adore, to follow, to imitate. He was given to us as Counsellor - who is capable of leading us and advising us in every situation in our lives - Ps. 23 says "He leads us in paths of righteousness for His name's sake". He was given to us as Mighty God, who is capable of performing miracle after miracle - of healing the sick physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, of reconciling us with God, of reconciling us with each other, of raising and removing governments at His will. He was given to us as everlasting Father - father to the fatherless, to the motherless, to the rejected, to the unloved, to the poor, to the lonely... He was given to us as Prince of Peace to the restless, to the weary, to the tormented, to the battle fatigued... will you thank Father God with me for Him, the most wonderful gift to human kind ever bestowed on the earth?

And I want to thank you all for browsing this blogsite. Often I lay my hand on the screen of my computer and I ask God to bless each and every person who browses this blog - who reads these devotions - and I ask Him that you may find something here that is relevant and helpful to your life, to your problems, to your heart's cry.

May you all experience the joy of the Festive Season, may you vow to lay off something that may be unChristlike in your life, or a spirit of heaviness, or despair, or of hopelessness with the old year and put on the garments of praise and worship and ask and receive the gifts and fruits of the Spirit of God and experience love, joy and peace with the coming of the New Year.

God bless you one and all - Elizabeth