Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in YouTube images and lyrics with Audrey Assed singing … White Snow … poignantly singing of how Jesus came, so quietly, like snow on a Christmas morning, to save all those who see and believe in Him.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 42:2-3 [NLT] … 2 He will not shout or raise his voice in public. 3 He will not crush the weakest reed or put out a flickering candle. He will bring justice to all who have been wronged.
… The Messiah will so quietly come to save mankind.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 42:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Prophet Isaiah foretells of the Messiah coming to set mankind free and bring justice to His peoples.
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Reference Passage : … Isaiah 7:14 [NLT] … 14 All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’).
… The birth of the Messiah was foretold 700+ years before His coming in a manger.
Reference Passage : … Luke 2:1-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The familiar passage documents the humble arrival of the Messiah, King Jesus, wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 2:5-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Son of God was willing to set aside His glory/majesty and come to earth, born in a manger, walk this earth, die on a cross, and be resurrected to save mankind from our sins.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Lisa Samra, uses a personal reflection and the reference to a song illustrating how our Messiah came so quietly that so many missed His coming then (and now) and what He has done for mankind. The ODB author writes … In winter, I often wake to the beautiful surprise of a world blanketed in the peace and quiet of an early morning snow [see photo]. Not loudly like a spring thunderstorm that announces its presence in the night, snow comes softly.
In “Winter Snow Song,” [hear linked song] Audrey Assad sings that Jesus could have come to earth in power like a hurricane, but instead He came quietly and slowly like the winter snow falling softly in the night outside my window.
Jesus’s arrival took many by quiet surprise. Instead of being born in a palace, He was born in an unlikely place, a humble dwelling outside Bethlehem.
God came to mankind so-so humbly, quietly, as the linked song proclaims, … like a blanket of white snow in the morning, … so quietly, viewed only by those in that manger by His parents and those lowly shepherds as we so often read about on this day from Luke’s account of The Messiah’s birth.
And so many then … and even more now … missed the arrival of the Savior, even tho He was prophesied by Prophets venerated by the Priests and religious elite of Jesus’ day. But, … on this Christmas day, I pray that all reading with me here today not only haven’t missed His coming into that manger scene over 2000 years ago, … but we are willing to tell anyone, anywhere, just how that Christ child walked quietly - or maybe disturbingly - into our lives and changed us - nay, TRANSFORMED us! - by being The Christ, our Immanuel, … our Savior and Lord.
So, whenever and wherever we can during this upcoming new year, let us tell of that babe who came so quietly, like snow on a Christmas morning, to shed His crimson blood and make us all white as snow.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for setting aside Your glory for a time to set us free from ourselves … forever.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, see that fresh snow of eternal glory this morning as we celebrate our Lord’s coming down to save us all. … Amen
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