As a child, I am sure just about everyone received gifts that were not high on the wish list, but turned out to be very needed-some of these are warm coats, underwear, socks, a planner.....
The Jewish people at the time of Christ were looking for a savior, and they certainly had need of saving. They were an occupied country under the rule of the Roman Empire. Antiochus Epiphanes offered a pig on the Alter in 168 BC to make his point and a statue of Zeus was placed in the Holy of Holies. Clearly the Jewish people of the time needed saving. I think about the USMC saying "Kicking__ for over 200 years, well the Roman Legion did it for over a thousand years.
The Jewish people had some fine models in their history-Moses the great deliverer who brought plagues on Egypt, Sampson the Jewish superman, Elijah who could call down fire from heaven, and David the great warrior and general. This was the gift that they were looking for; what they got was Jesus. A Rabbi who said turn the other check, He ministered to the lowly and children, He consorted with people in league with Rome!
Jesus was and still is desperately needed by this world. Only his message of peace and forgiveness can minister to a world full of want and diversion. Those who have not, desperately strive to join those who have. Those that have, seek to full fill themselves through various means: sex, drugs, pursuit of pleasure, pursuit of wealth to the point of avarice, all leave the soul empty at the end of the day-only Jesus Christ fills the quiet lack in someones soul. Only Jesus can answer the question of "Is this all there is?"
The gift the world needed-Merry Christmas!
Big D
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