A Christmas Story

“This is how God showed His love towards us: He sent His only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His only Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

1 John 4:9-10

It was a cold and windy Christmas night. The sky was clear and the stars shined like diamonds in the black velvet sky. The snow radiated as the moon reflects its light off the country hills. 

From a distance, a small bird sitting on a cold branch noticed a light coming from an old farm house. The bird flew by the window sill and felt the warmth from the fire place; the bird started to tap on the window.  The elderly farmer sitting by the fire place noticed the small bird as he tapped on the window.  As the farmer walked towards the window, he notice blood starting to flow from the bird’s beak as the wire screen cut into the bird as he anxiously tapped on the window.

This old farmer was grieved and tried to stop the bird from hurting himself. But the more the farmer tried to tell the bird to stop hurting himself, the harder he tapped on the window.  The farmer cried out, how I can ever communicate to this small bird to stop hurting himself. Suddenly, the farmer thought if I can only become a small bird himself then he would be able to communicate to the bird to stop hurting himself.

This analogy is just a minute illustration of what happened over 2 thousand years ago, when the Creator of the Universe became a man through His Son and bore all of the hurts and pain of this world upon Him; by doing so God is able to understand all of the hurts that you and I may be experiencing and also understands our human frailties. The Christmas story is the greatest love story ever told!