On the Birthday of our Lord Jesus, we are called to celebrate and contemplate on who He is to us.

My sister has been fascinated with our family history and has dug up various nuggets of information regarding our ancestors many of whom were soldiers in the British India army. The study is like shining a torch down three centuries and the details of their physical attributes, family and life story are fascinating. In the early 1800s one of them in his late teens, set sail on a ship as an enthusiastic rope maker and landed in India. The point is, though I am still getting to know details of his life story, even his life is well known to our Lord and Saviour Jesus because the word tells that “In the beginning was the word. And the Word was with God and the Word was God… all things were made through Him.” John 1: 1-2. While we are struggling to uncover details of our ancestry and history, there was one who made each of our ancestors and was the source of life of them all.

Just imagine, the Lord looking at each of the people who preceded you, right down to your time. He knows their weakness and strengths, their triumphs and failures, the baggage they have passed on to us and what we will be passing on to our children. The word says – without Him nothing came to be. If you are fascinated with the giants of the ocean, the rock formations, the glaciers, the deep sea treasures, the volcanoes – all of them came into being through the word of our Lord Jesus. And yet on this day, He who made everything chooses to visit us in the form of a lowly poor child, born into simplicity and in the most humble of circumstances. Now this child had a mission for us – to show us the Father’s love and then demonstrate that love by giving His own life for us.

While historically our Lord Jesus was born on this earth more than 2000 years ago, spiritually, He who did the impossible, is capable of yet another miracle. In the Spirit, on this beautiful day, he can be born within our hearts. For what reason? That we may carry His presence as we journey through life and give the Father’s love to those we may meet. Just as our Lord was a conduit of the Father’s love, we are handed over the baton to give the Father’s love to people. When we accept this mission, He will do the supernatural. That is why, Christmas is the festival of giving. Let us choose to carry the presence of Jesus in our hearts and gift Him to others.

Prayer: Abba Father, your son Jesus is truly present within me and I choose to give him to people around me with your grace and power. Amen.