IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR (Continuation of Series)

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       On a midnight clear…with a message of love so very dear…Even though we weren’t on that hillside so long ago, and didn’t see the star or hear the angels, like the shepherds, we should still be excited.  The message is still the same. “Behold, I bring you good news of great joy, for unto you is born a Savior” …

                It was Rome and the legions of Augustus were doing what they did on a fairly regular basis.  They would line up and march by their Ruler crying out as they passed, “Hail, Caesar.” 

          The trumpets would blare, the banners flutter in the wind, the stones tremble beneath their feet. 

          It was all beautifully synchronized and wondrous to behold but Augustus, exalted god/ruler, was bored. 

          Terribly, overwhelming bored.

           He could not count the number of such parades he had to endure.  Ah, the drudgery of being an emperor.

          At the same time, in a rented stable, in an out-of-the-way little town at the far corner of the Roman Empire, a baby was beginning to cry. 

          He was wrapped in swaddling clothes.  His bed was scattered straw and the only heat was that of farm animals moving about in the cold of the night. 

It was not a time when medical care such as we know today was available. 

          It was a time when few babies survived more than a year. 

          But this babe did. 

          Lived and grew up in a place called Nazareth and, for a time, carpentry was His trade. 

          When he had reached only the twelfth year of his being, He gave His parents a hint of what He would one day become, “Know ye not that I must be about my fathers business?” 

With three decades behind him, He began His ministry.  “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” It was a snide remark often made by those who lived in big cities.

 And in those days of long ago, Jesus did not directly answer the question; He did not have to.  His life did a quite good job of that all by itself.  

And His death upon a cross did and His resurrection.  And now it is Christmas and once again all over the world we remember just how important the birth of this Savior really was.

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