Because God made all the arrangements, Jesus Christ came at the right time. His love never fails!
Secondly, Jesus came IN THE RIGHT WAY. Galatians 4:4 says, “…God sent forth His son, born of a woman, born under the law…” When God the Father sent forth from the halls of Heaven God the Son, He sent Him forth to be “born of a woman” Jesus was born not of a man and a woman, but of a woman — a virgin birth — so that He would be a sinless Savior. For God knew that a sinful Savior would be no Savior at all. And Jesus was “born under the law” This law is the perfect expectations and standards of God that the human race has miserably failed to fulfill. In our miserable failure to fulfill this law, we find ourselves held hostage to it — kidnapped away from life with God today and forever. But when Jesus came, He was “born of a woman, born under the law.”
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Because God made all the arrangements, Jesus Christ came at the right time in the right way. His love never fails!
Thirdly, because God made all the arrangements, Jesus Christ came TO DO THE RIGHT THING. As Galatians 4:5 says: “…to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” At Christmas, God became man. In His humanity Jesus Christ lived the perfect life — He kept the law all of us have failed to keep. It is important to realize that in order to be acceptable to God, you must have a perfect life to present to Him — a life without sin and imperfection. This is something none of us have. But when you trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior, you have a perfect life to present to God the Father: the perfect life of God the Son! Jesus lived the perfect life. Then, Jesus died the perfect death. He shed His blood as a payment, as a ransom price, to redeem those of us who were under the law so that we might become the children of God He made us to be. This is how one paraphrase of the Bible puts Galatians 4:4-5: “But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent His son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law, so that He might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law. Thus we have been set free to experience our rightful heritage.” (The Message)
It’s like the time a mother, getting ready to go some place, spilled a glass of orange juice all over her dress and all over the kitchen floor. Because she was in a hurry, she decided to leave the Kool-Aid on the kitchen floor and run upstairs to change her dress. When she came back down stairs, she saw that her little boy had wiped the orange juice off the kitchen floor. The mother was so touched she reached into her purse and offered a couple of dollars to her son to repay him for his kindness. “That’s alright, Mama,” said the little boy, “I done it for love.”