Birth Of The Promise - Luke 2:11

For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 
- Luke 2:11

    The sheer and unapologetic anti-Christian ugliness that pervades popular culture today remains relentless. Open hostility toward people of the Christian faith falls just short of radical Islam’s hatred of the Christian West. Whether it’s a newspaper attack accusing Christians of bigotry toward the LGBTQ herd or celebrities aiming their dim-witted religiously ignorant remarks at anyone who believes in the Christian God, their malevolent and deafening assaults are designed to do but three things; (1) shut down the spread of the Gospel; (2) shame believers into submission; and (3) continue to darken an already hopeless world.  “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”- John 3:19.
    One of their favorite ploys is to simply refuse to deny “equal time” to the Gospel. While news report after news report will make every agonizing attempt to discredit decent God-fearing Christians, none will ever give time to God’s glorious word.  And they don’t limit themselves to attacking Christians; they turn their assaults against God Himself! “But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.” - Jude 17-18.
    The anti-Christian troops know that if we can’t preach the Gospel, we can’t teach the Gospel. And in their limited and convoluted minds they, like King Herod, need to kill the “the Message!” Whether their target is a baker who cannot violate his own beliefs by validating one of their heinous lies or a civil servant who refuses to certify their sins, their aim - their objective - is to shut down and criminalize the Christian conscience! Even Christian charities are “offensive” to these haters of God! Could they have had their way, they would have silenced the voices of the very angels declaring, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!” - Luke 2:14.   
    But this Christmas Day let us remember the promise made by our almighty Father in heaven; a message that offers salvation to a dark and dying world; a message of hope -“For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” - Acts 2:39. God Himself has made the promise to all who will believe in Him despite the wiles of the world, the betrayal of the flesh, and the treachery the devil- “And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.” - 1 John 2:25.
    Celebrate this day, this very morning “the Promise,” the birth of the Savior, the Messiah, the Lord, Jesus Christ! “Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” - Genesis 28:14. That “seed” promised so many years ago was born to us on Christmas Day!
     “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” - John 3:16.
Merry Christmas!