CHRISTmas: The beginning of the end.

Christmas, celebrates Jesus's birth. And Christians believe that:

• Jesus is fully God
• Jesus is also fully human
• and because of these two facts he is our salvation.

This 'plan' isn't something God just thought up before he sent Gabriel to see Mary, Jesus was the salvation plan from the very beginning. Just after Adam and Eve sinned against God, God punished them (leading to death, pain and suffering entering the world) but he also gave them (and us) hope.

"And I will put enmity

 between you [serpent] and the woman, [Eve]

 and between your offspring and hers; 

he will crush your head,

and you will strike his heel." 

 Genesis 3:15

Right from the beginning of time, God promised to send us someone who would save us from the Devil (the serpent) and the rest of the Old Testament shows God being faithful to his people (the Israelites) who constantly disobey him and reject him from their lives. But God keeps loving them, keep promising to send someone who will be able to save them from themselves. Who can save all of us from the voice inside our head that calls us to hurt one another, that tells us that money, or popularity or clothes will makes us feel better, the voice that taunts us when we're down, and tells us we're not worth anything. 

Jesus didn't come to Earth to make us feel insignificant, useless and unworthy, he came to Earth, to be born as a lowly carpenter in Nazareth, the place where no one of importance lived. And place he worked for 30 years of his life, before he started the final journey of his life, 3 years of teaching before he sacrificed himself on a cross so you and I could be free. He didn't come to judge, he came to save. He didn't come to reject but to show his love. And his by his death, he took all our sins onto himself, and then rose again, defeating death and crushing the serpents head, and by this action if you believe in him at the day of Judgement, Jesus will stand between you and God and say he died for you, and you too will be raised into everlasting life, into the relationship with God. Because, all God wants is for you to believe in him and have a relationship with him. He wants to save you, because he loves you.