Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread…. Jesus is not a phenomenon, He is bread: Christ is not a curiosity, He is water. As surely as we cannot live without bread, we cannot live truly without Christ: If we know not Christ we are not living, our movement is a mechanical flutter, our pulse is but the stirring of an animal life.
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Phillip Keller
It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.
Andre Seu
Go to the Bible to meet Christ…He is its author, its subject matter, the doorway to its treasures, the full-throated symphony of which Adam and the prophets heard just the faintest tune.
Ed Stetzer
As Christians, we understand that the solution to this world’s problems is found in the Good News of Jesus Christ. He came to be the true Savior. He is the Way out of idolatry. He is the Truth that speaks to our idolatry, and he is the wellspring of Life that nourishes and satisfies our lonely and forgetful hearts.
Rev. Richard J. Fairchild
Eternal God, this holy night is radiant with the brilliance of your one true light. May that light illuminate our hearts and shine in our words and deeds. May the hope, the peace, the joy, and the love represented by the birth in Bethlehem this night fill our lives and become part of all that we say and do. May we share the divine life of your son Jesus Christ, even as he humbled himself to share our humanity. Amen.
Ed Silvoso
Think about Jesus being “full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14) If the pendulum swings excessively toward grace at the expense of truth, we end up with a “sugarcoated Jesus,” the favorite of motivational preachers. They tell their audiences what will make them feel good, without including the responsibilities that the truth of who Jesus is demands: repentance, restitution and righteous living. And if the pendulum swings too far toward the truth side, we get a judgmental version of Jesus, whose immense gracious love and compassion are trodden under.
Blake Healy
Jesus died so that you could know God better, so that you could be alone with him without sin being the elephant in the room. There is no longer any barrier between his goodness and our hearts. He tore down the veil. Learning the magnitude of that goodness is our Christian walk.
Matthew Henry
The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!
Daily Glory Devotions
Have you ever seen one those paintings of Jesus where He is depicted as a tall lean blond man lounging in a field in a white robe holding a bunch of lambs? Who paints those things?
This is not the image of our God as depicted in His word. Jesus was a rough and burly man. Full of fire and passion. A warrior when it came to doing battle against those who offended the sacred things of the Father. Yet, in a moment, able to touch a young child with hands of gentleness. To us, the warrior is just as critical as the gentle shepherd. By His holy passion for righteousness, we are continually moved on to perfection. By His gentle love, we are continually comforted in our lessons of life. Let us never lose sight of the God who is a fierce warrior.
Roy Lessin
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.