You are the Reason for the Season

Any celebration about the advent of our Lord and Savior in the earth should pivot on the fact that without God's love for the people of the world His Son would not have been sent. Without the love for people, the baby is never born and the Son is never given.

We cannot add to God's majesty by devout worship or to His strength by a show of majority. He is not like the dead gods of the world that require human effort to remain relevant. He is; and there has never been a threat to His being.

So in this time, no matter how or if we celebrate the appearing of our Lord, ask the Living God:

How do I become the joy in the world?
How do I become the light of men?
Do I know that I am a son of God?
How is a "son given"? and "To whom is my Father sending me?"

Seek out the mystery that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. The answers make us ministers of this work of God. For Jesus did not remain Jesus the man; he died and arose as Jesus the Christ, the firstborn among many, the primogenitor of the spirits of just men made perfect. By this effort of God we are sanctified to the Living God as His children. And as children of God we represent the appearing of Christ in the world.

This season is not about the baby in a manger. It is about God's effort to reconcile, to bring back into His original intent, the lives of men. By this we become the light of the world.

This season is about Christ in us, the hope of glory.

Blessings,
Aaron56

I thought this would prompt more discussion. I realize it puts long held traditions on notice but the liberty gained from this understanding should make forgotten scriptures leap back to life.

Calling men to represent Him separates the Living God, our Father, from all other gods. To embrace that Christ lives through the flesh of the sanctified is the gospel of God. To deny such a thing is anti-Christ.

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”

Do you see it? It is about Him in you (if indeed He is in you). This is the principle that separates the Christian from the sons of God. Anyone can follow the teachings of wiseman and be called a disciple of that man (Christian) but only those whom Christ lives through are the sons of God, and they live as representatives of the Father in the earth. The many sons make up the One Son in heaven and on earth. The whole of creation awaits for our assembly. In this hour this is what God is doing: drawing all who are in Him into His dwelling place, His house, the oikonomia (economy) of the First Born among many.