Merry CHRISTmas to ALL!

[Monksailor]

Praise the Lord for His Merciful, Kind, and Gracious ways, all founded in His immeasurable and infinite LOVE!!!!

In that love He did all that He could to reconciliate us unto His Glorious presence after we turned away and said we know a better way; in effect, spit God in the face. We were/are no longer as humans worthy to stand in His Holy presence EXCEPT though the unselfish sacrifice of His ONLY begotten Son, Jesus, the Christ/Messiah. Through and IN Christ's righteousness we CAN now stand in God, our adoptive DADDY'S, presence and He in ours as we face the world and those who would silent His Powerful Word.

He stands on the porch and waits (the Prodigal Son story); He stands at the door and knocks, Revelation 3:20. Praise His most excellent Graciousness!!!!! If we return from the filth and mire of our own doing; if we open the door to Him, He will accept and love us with unfathomable forgiveness and celebrate!!! If we confess our sins He will cleanse us from all unrighteousness! (1 John 1:9) Praise His most abounding LOVE!!!! There is no rejection of such by our GREAT and WONDERFUL LORD!

PRAISE THE CREATOR AND SUSTAINER OF ALL CREATION WHO LOVES HIS CREATION SO MUCH THAT HE WOULD COME DOWN TO US AND ALSO BECOME ONE OF US SO THAT HE COULD TAKE OUR PUNISHMENT UPON HIMSELF TO REDEEM US. PRAISE HIS MOST HOLY AND PRECIOUS NAME!!!

 

[mnorian]

Praise the Lord for His Merciful, Kind, and Gracious ways, all founded in His immeasurable and infinite LOVE!!!!

In that love He did all that He could to reconciliate us unto His Glorious presence after we turned away and said we know a better way; in effect, spit God in the face. We were/are no longer as humans worthy to stand in His Holy presence EXCEPT though the unselfish sacrifice of His ONLY begotten Son, Jesus, the Christ/Messiah. Through and IN Christ's righteousness we CAN now stand in God, our adoptive DADDY'S, presence and He in ours as we face the world and those who would silent His Powerful Word.

He stands on the porch and waits (the Prodigal Son story); He stands at the door and knocks, Revelation 3:20. Praise His most excellent Graciousness!!!!! If we return from the filth and mire of our own doing; if we open the door to Him, He will accept and love us with unfathomable forgiveness and celebrate!!! If we confess our sins He will cleanse us from all unrighteousness! (1 John 1:9) Praise His most abounding LOVE!!!! There is no rejection of such by our GREAT and WONDERFUL LORD!

PRAISE THE CREATOR AND SUSTAINER OF ALL CREATION WHO LOVES HIS CREATION SO MUCH THAT HE WOULD COME DOWN TO US AND ALSO BECOME ONE OF US SO THAT HE COULD TAKE OUR PUNISHMENT UPON HIMSELF TO REDEEM US. PRAISE HIS MOST HOLY AND PRECIOUS NAME!!!

I like your thoughts; but do you have a music video you could share on this subject? We are all about the music on this forum.

 

[Monksailor]

Oh! I apologize. The music is so expertly worked into the video.

(FYI: "It appears, then, that the Magi made their visit and gave their gifts – including the gold – after the Temple presentation of Jesus, which means that the Magi could not have been present with their gifts on the day of Jesus’ birth. " "We now know that the Magi did not arrive when Jesus was born or even when he was an infant; they arrived in Bethlehem when the family moved from Nazareth to Bethlehem, when Jesus was a “toddler.”" Pasted from: Jesus’ Birth – The Wise Men (Magi) and another: What does the Bible say about the three wise men (Magi)? | GotQuestions.org Additionally, there may have been a whole caravan of whomever with the wise men/3 kings. The Bible does not give us the number of men, only gifts. From: The Myth of the Nativity Wise Men )

The time of their arrival is really insignificant in contrast to the significance of the event of Christ's birth but I DO place my three wise men in my manger scene at a distnce from the manger scene as if they are still traveling.