Monday, December 24, 2012

They Have Moses and the Prophets... {The Rich Man and Lazarus?} A Christmas Carol?

Thank God, many believe at the testimony of Moses and the Prophets. A Greater, Greater, Greater than Moses is with us. Jesus has come that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol took the hearty wish of the rich man and penned it, to the benefit of all who would hear it's true message. Christ is come to the healing of the soul. Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Sin has no hold on the soul so deep that Christ cannot break its clutches with His mercy and grace. He has given power to the Church to do the work of loving people to Him. We are born clinging to our sins and we grasp and clutch them, until they are replaced with the love of Christ. He is truly the stronger than the strong man. I like to believe that behind the scenes of the Christmas Carol, there was a church praying diligently for the spiritually disenfranchised, the Scrooges of the world for whom the bell tolls. I like to believe that God dispatched a supernatural visitation to draw the sinner to repentance of his sins. It happens in different ways to all who believe. That is the real miracle of Christmas. The truth that Christ has come that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Whatever the riches that we enjoy, physical riches or spiritual, that in Christ we can know that there is far more delight in Christ that we haven't tasted, nor will we, till we see Him face to face.
Jesus, what a friend for sinners, Jesus, lover of my soul, Friends may fail me, Foes assail me, He, my Savior, helps my soul, Halleluia, what a Savior, Halleluia what a friend, Saving, helping, keeping, loving, He is with me to the end

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