Twenty-fourth Day of Advent

 Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Tell Me About the Christmas Baby:
An Advent Devotional Guide

“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men….”
I Timothy 2:5

It’s not unusual today in our multicultural society of political correctness to hear someone say, “We all serve the same God. We just call him something different,” and “Some get to God one way; some another.” Perhaps we should look at the verse above as we consider these statements.

If we go back to Exodus, we read in chapter 20, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me, for I the Lord am a jealous God.” Would He have bothered to say that if there were no others whom we could choose? And in the verse above He clearly tells that He is the only one, and Jesus Christ is the only way to get to Him.

The baby whose birth we will soon celebrate is the Christ – the only son of the only God – the one who grew to be the only one who could provide the only way for us to know the only God.

At Christmas, we don’t like to think of a baby suffering, but that is exactly why He came – to grow up and live to show us how to live and to die to make it possible for us to live forever with the only God, His Father.

Father, only God, Creator, Son, Redeemer, worthy of praise – thank you for the Baby who leads us to you. Amen. 

Tell Me About the Christmas Baby:
An Advent Devotional Guide

prepared for First United Methodist Church of Homosassa, Florida
Winter 2010
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Coordinator