"To us!" "To us!"

Week 4, Day 2 Reading: Isaiah 9:1-8

Isaiah 9:6-7  For to us a child is born, to us a son is given . . .

In this prophecy of the coming Messiah, we are told that a child would be born "to us" and a son would be given "to us."   To us ... the baby Jesus, crying when hungry, shivering when cold. To us this child would be born. But this child would be no ordinary baby ... for he is the son who is given. Whose son? The Son of God! Given by whom? The Father, of course. For John reminds us in his gospel that "God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son" (John 3:16). And this son is given "to us!"

Can you think of a more wonderful, life-changing, heart-warming, soul-stirring, everything-changing gift than the Son of God? I certainly cannot! Take a moment and bow your heart before God and offer him a heart-felt word of thanks for the gift of his one and only Son!

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pj