December 22
“It is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous” Romans 2:13. In the fullness of time, the One who wrote the law on tables of stone and gave the precepts by which man is expected to live to Moses, came to earth to fulfill the law Himself.
The Holy One, who is, “of purer eyes than to look upon sin” Habakkuk 1:13, entered the sin-filled realm where the evil one perpetrates his mischief against the gullible and the unsuspecting and He vanquished sin and the devil by living the sinless life that man could not achieve.
Further, He gave humankind the opportunity to allow the Holy Spirit to write God’s immutable law on the tables of his heart. Because the Savior came, because He lived and died in the behalf of man, man now has the privilege of receiving the “unspeakable GIFT” of II Corinthians 9:15.
Because Jesus is that unspeakably wonderful GIFT, because it is the GIFT that puts all other gifts into the realm of mere refuse (see Philippians 3:8), man may go forward in the righteousness that is Christ, in the true GIFT of Christmas that transcends time and gives the man who will receive it all that is the Lord’s for eternity.
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