A Dichomoty of Suffering that behind in a crib

A Dichotomy of Suffering that begins in a Crib

Who would ever believe that the entrance of a tiny, helpless baby, vulnerable to the evil of a world in which he must carry the load of those who are destined to eternal death without his choice of assuming humanity?

Of course it took a Yes by a virgin, the humbling of God himself, and the atrocious back-stabbing of the religious entity in Jerusalem to accomplish what couldn’t be found without the sinfulness of you and I.  

The Passion of our Lord, Jesus Christ, would not have become reality without the fall of Adam, the first man to defy the rule of obedience from his Creator.  Eve, the first woman to say no to a request from Christ after his Spirit hovered over the abyss, wrote the first chapter of eternal life for man.  Mary, the second woman who said yes from Christ’s Angel Gabriel to complete the chapters of eternal life for man now stands as the answer for freedom from the death warrant of a duty to condemn the followers of Adam.  

It is the season of Christmas that opens a journey to Paradise that assumes the probability of our Creator establishing the only manner of mankind finding this road that begins with human birth, a baptism that clears away the darkness that man sought and a cross from the tree of the Dogwood, symbolic of the crib the held his tiny body.

In the later days of the Christmas Season our premise of the future plan of God unfolds before us; we shall see the Word of God exult his Father’s Will and become untouched by personal sin, not because of his divinity-no because of his grace to avoid the evil of this world.  He will be tempted like us in his own person and his Spirit is upon him as he sees his mission more important than his own body, which he offers willingly on Calvary.

We look upon the face of God through his Word who is the Holy Trinity, neither with a beginning nor an ending.  He came in humility to a race of disbelief; He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.  He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him.  (Jn 1: 10 - 11).

He then asks his Father; Father, forgive them, they know not what they do. (Lk 23: 34).  When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.”   (Jn 19: 30).  What began in Bethlehem as a child of mankind in the person of Christ the Savior, now completes his mission as the Paschal Lamb and destroys sin and death for all mankind.  

Ralph B. Hathaway