Holidays With Jesus: ChristmasSample

Christmas Eve. 

The peaceful night before our Lord was born. And what an incredible night that was!

With Father God knowing what was about to happen...how His majestic Perfect Plan would make way for the world to forever change in 30 or so years through His sweet, newborn Son...how the humans He deeply cherished and loved would have the ability to connect with Him through His Son — I can just imagine what an incredibly special, awestruck, and brilliant moment it was when Father God would soon hear His precious Son’s first breath.

And with Father God also fully understanding what would happen to His beloved Son in 30 or so short years...knowing how His newborn Son would greatly suffer...realizing what horrible pain and agony His newborn Son would experience — I can just imagine how Father God’s great big beautiful heart carried the most awful, crushing, bittersweet feeling.

That precious, soon to be most important day in all of history.

That incredible Christmas Eve when the angels waited with great anticipation...and in great expectation.

That glorious next day when the King of all Kings would be born in a simple, humble stable.

That distinguished night when this magnificent, splendid, beautiful Son’s purpose was about to unfold and begin...to one day willingly lay down His life and take on – and feel – every heartach, sin, and brokenness of all those He loved and chose to die for...including you and me...painfully pierce Him on the cross. He willingly submitted to God’s plan to save a doomed and dying world.

Christmas Eve is the night before the Greatest Day in all of HIStory. 

What an extravagant miracle and promise Christmas Eve holds!

Prayer: “Father God, I cannot even comprehend how Your great heart felt the night before Your precious Son was born — and I cannot even comprehend what great joy and pain coincided in Your heart the day Your precious Son was born. Thank You, Abba Father, for your extraordinary plan and for Your Son’s magnificent sacrifice! We certainly have done nothing to deserve such a lavish, extravagant, and sacrificial Gift...but we are extremely thankful You love us so much that You orchestrated the most marvelous, perfect, miraculous plan! This Christmas Eve, may we not only see the beauty in Your precious, perfect plan, may we also be so humbled as we celebrate the birth of Your Son and His great sacrifice! There are simply not enough words to thank you – and show love to you – for Your special Christmas Eve Gift! We love, cherish, treasure, and adore You so very much! In Jesus name we pray, Amen!”

This devotional © 2018 by Kim Niles/Grief Bites. All rights reserved. Used by permission.