God Is For Us

Luke 2:10 But the angel said to them ''Do not be afraid! I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people''.

Them message above was delivered by an angel of the Lord to the shepherds the night when Jesus was born.

The birth of Jesus, for me, was one of the greatest demonstrations of how much love God has for us. A love that was so much willing to take the very nature of human and die on the cross just to bring back the br0ken relati0nship with Him. And that Jesus who was for me the very image of love, the human form of love, for God is love.

God is for us!

That is why Jesus came to this w0rld almost 2000 years ago.

To know that God is for us will entirely change our perpective on life. We will stop thinking of God as someone looking down from behind the big clouds, ready to yell 'gotcha' anytime we make mistakes or everytime we mess up.

Instead we will realize God loves us; God is with us; and God is for us! God is for our success in life; he created us for a purpose and he wants us to succeed. It is God, our creator, who will measure our success in life, and no one else.

This is extremely good news!

It means we do not need to be afraid of God because God is for us. Yet some people are so afraid of God they get nervous just talking about him.

Do you kn0w why? They feel guilty, and then they start thinking ''if I get close to God, He is going to lecture me. He's going to remind me of h0w bad I am with all the things I have done wr0ng then I feel even worse''

Nothing could be further from the truth of God. Jesus said '' I didn't come into the world to condemn it, but to save it'' in effect, Jesus is saying '' I didn't come to scold you, I came to save you''.

And if God is with us and for us then who can be against us?

The arrival of this Jesus into the world is to save people not to scare us. That's why when the angel was telling the shepherds about the birth of Jesus, the first thing he said was ''Don't be afraid''.

Pastor Rick Warren said: ''When God sends a message to people in the bible, it's not unusual for the first words to be ''Don't be afraid''. There are 365 messages from God in the bible that begin with a phrase like ''Fear not'', in other words, every single day of the year you can read a message from God that says in effect ''you don't havd to be afraid, I am for you, I am with you and I love you''

Let us put in our mind that we celebrate Christmas because of this good news from God!