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by GLENN PEASE
12/16/17
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Based on John 1:1-14

     Everybody in the world has a birthday. It doesn't make any difference if they are rich or poor, black or white, or educated or uneducated. Everybody has one in every age. Methuselah had 969 of them before he died, and that was the world record until Jesus came. Jesus only had 33 birthdays before He died on the cross, but He conquered death and rose again after 3 days, and so He has never really missed a birthday since He was born in that manger of Bethlehem. He has had about 2000 of them, which is over twice as many as Methuselah, the oldest man who ever lived. That makes Jesus the record holder for birthdays.

        But the birthday of Jesus is not just the greatest because it is the oldest, but because there is no other birthday like it in history. His is the only birthday where we all receive a gift greater than anything we can give to Him whose birthday it is. At many birthday parties the guests receive prizes and get small gifts, but who ever heard of the guest getting more and greater gifts than the one whose birthday is being celebrated? Only at Christmas does this happen, and that is why it is such a joyous birthday.

        Now what is it that we all receive from God on Christmas? John tells us that God gave us a Word. A word doesn't sound like much of a gift does it? If all I had to give was words it would be cheap and easy task to do my Christmas shopping. I wouldn't have to leave the house. I could just say great words like love, joy and peace to each one in my family and I would be done. A word would be a very disappointing gift. All of you would be sad this Christmas if all you got was a word. Why then is the Word that God gave us the greatest gift in the world? It is because the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The Word was the name of Jesus before He became a child in the manger. He was with God forever in the past, and He was just like God, for He was invisible. God had wonderful thoughts for man back then when Jesus was the Word. God thought, "I love man even though he is sinful. I love him and want to save him. I want to make it possible for his sin to be forgiven so he can enter my presence in peace, and have fellowship with me."

      Now all of those great thoughts did not do man any good until God put His thoughts into action. Parents might think of how nice it would be to get Billy a new bike, but what Billy really wants is to see the new bike. Good thoughts are not enough for us, and so it is with God's good thoughts. So God sent His good thoughts into the world wrapped in swaddling clothes. His Word became flesh where we could see, hear and feel His love. Gifts are words we can see and touch. In your mind you have a thought that you love your child. It is a good word you have in your mind, but then you take action so that your word becomes a gift that your child can see and touch, and then they can experience the reality of your thought.

       God so loved the world, but He didn't just say so, for that would be the Word staying as a word. God so loved that He gave His Son, and that was the Word becoming flesh. God gave us a Person on Christmas, and there is no greater gift than that. God gave us himself and all His love in Jesus. If we receive Jesus, we have the best that God can give. We have His best thought, which was His Christmas thought. It was His thought that He loves us and will save us if we receive His Word.

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