Since Christ... - by Christo Jovner

 

Salvation - Founded since Christ's birth! 

Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year! To me to celebrate Christmas, is to celebrate Christ!

We often - every year for that matter - celebrate our birthdays... We hear, and perhaps are part of, the anniversary of a school or a wedding. We often see on a business shop front or on their media space "Founded since...."

What all these celebrations have is common, is the decision to start something! We celebrate origins - we celebrate that someone decided to start a business, someone decided to start a school, a church, someone decided to marry, and to have children...

And so, God the Father decided to send Jesus to the earth, and when Christ was born, salvation originated. Salvation, the Savior of the world, was born. Salvation - that which was in God's heart from before the beginning of the world... 

Look what the Bible say:

Simeon said in Luk 2:29-30 “Sovereign Lord, as you have promised...  my eyes have seen your salvation" Luke 2:29‭-‬30

Angels appeared to shepherds in the night and said: "Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord." Luke 2:11 NIV

Zachariah said the following of his son, John the Baptist, he would "give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins," Luke 1:77 NIV

Of Jesus, he said: He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David. Luke 1:69 NIV

Isaiah prophesied of Christ: he says: “I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”Isaiah 49:6 NIV 

Today, let's celebrate Christmas with sure knowing that Christ was born and the He brought salvation to us! 

Salvation - founded since Jesus was born, but founded before the beginning of the world in God the Father's heart!