Christmas: God's Love Unveiled

Just imagine going to the market to pay the highest price anyone can ever pay for any commodity just to purchase the worthless thing in the market. Something so worthless that one can even have it for free without payment of any sort. That is what God has done for us in Christ Jesus.
We were not just dirty, foul and unclean as sinners, we were equally worthless. We were smoking flax fit only to be quenched, yet He did not quench us. We were bruised reed fit only to be crushed, yet did He not break or crush us.
Matthew 12:20
[20]A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
A smoking flax and a bruised reed are both useless and worthless. Among the Israelites in His earthly days, a smoking flax and a bruised are only fit to be discarded. Yet, He paid the ultimate price for us when we were only fit to be discarded.
As we celebrate Christmas, let us remind ourselves that love is the reason for the birth.
Matthew 1:21
[21]And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
John 3:16
[16]For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Without God's love for us, no Saviour would have ever been born. Christmas is not a celebration of the birth in itself but a celebration of the love that culminated in the birth. Love came for the totally undeserving. Love paid the highest price for the most undeserving.
Just in case you do not still have the perfect picture of how worthless we were as sinners, think about this. Would you go to the market to pay the highest price in purchase of cow dung? No! You would not. People do not even sell that. You can just pick it up for free wherever cows are being reared. Afterall, it is a mess and an extra burden to the one rearing the cows.
That is what the Father did for me and you in Jesus Christ. We had no worth at all. Yet, He went to the extent of paying not just any price, but the highest price ever to be paid in the history of heaven and earth.
Beloved, Grace is the gospel and every addition to Grace is a lie. Let no man deceive you that you still had some worth in yourself through messages that make you feel that you have some good in yourself. No, you do not apart from Christ.
Love is the reason for the birth and love is the reason for the season. Celebrate love, even God's never-ending love for me and you.
Merry Christmas to you and yours from this side.
Grace always!
(Article inspired by the Holy Ghost through Cory Asbury's "Reckless Love"