A Promise to Ponder Volume 3, Issue 31

Luke 2:7 - 7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

    Jesus, God incarnate, left His heavenly home, where He sat King of kings, Lord of lords, all powerful, and had the riches of the universe at His disposal, to be born, not in a palace with nurses, great pomp, or Earthly wealth, but in a stable, wrapped with simple strips of cloth, and laid in a lowly manger. So what is the significance of this? Jesus went from being the richest of the rich to the poorest of the poor (2 Corinthians 8:9 - 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.), in so much that as a grown man he did not have so much as a hole to lay his weary head, he was “homeless”. (Matthew 8:20 - 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.) Jesus can minister to the rich and poor alike. No one on this Earth can say that he/she is to poor or too rich for God to save him/her. Jesus cannot be put into a particular class such as rich, middle class, or poor. He has been all of them. So no matter a person’s “status” in life or what “class” someone is in, God can, desires to, and will save that person. All that must be done for salvation from eternal damnation is simple, repent of sin, turn to Christ in faith, and ask Him to a personal savior. When a person does this Jesus reply’s John 6:37 - 37 “…him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” Now that’s A Promise to Ponder!