“I’ll make all the arrangements.”
It’s good to hear these words when they come from the lips of a travel agent, cruise director, concierge, wedding coordinator, mortgage broker, real estate agent, husband or wife.
“I’ll make all the arrangements.”
CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT LETTING GOD MAKE THE ARRANGEMENTS. And God is so much more able to make all the arrangements than these other people who specialize in making arrangements. Why? BECAUSE HIS LOVE NEVER FAILS!
Think of THAT FIRST CHRISTMAS AND HOW GOD MADE ALL THE ARRANGMENTS. Galatians 4:4-5 speaks of that first Christmas: “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons.” (NLT)
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Yes, that first Christmas God made all the arrangements. He arranged for:
- Joseph and Mary to meet and be engaged
- Mary, while still a virgin, to become with child by the Holy Spirit
- Caesar Augustus to issue a decree that a census should be taken in Palestine
- Joseph and Mary to take that journey to Bethlehem
- The labor pains to begin and the manger to be available
- The shepherds to be in the field keeping watch over their flock by night
- The angel chorus
- The star in the heavens
- The wise men from the East
That first Christmas God made all the arrangements! His love never fails!
Because God made all the arrangements, when Jesus Christ came, He came in three ways. First of all, He came AT THE RIGHT TIME. As Galatians 4 says, “When the fullness of time had come …” That word “fullness” carries with it a sense of everything being ready — like a woman at full-term pregnancy. In a similar way, the world was ready when Jesus came. Never before in history had this earth been in a better position for the message of Jesus to spread throughout the world. The Roman world was, at that moment, at peace — the “Pax Romana”. An unprecedented system of roads made communication and travel safer, swifter and more secure than ever before. God’s people, the Jews, were scattered to many lands and were acquainted with the promises and prophecies of Scripture, looking for the Messiah. There was a common language, the Greek language, spoken and understood by many. The world was ready for the message of Jesus Christ to travel far and wide.