The Hope of Christmas
Read the Bible through:
AM – Hosea 11-12 : PM – Jude
Trust in Jesus
Romans 15:7-12
12 “Isaiah says: "There shall be a root of Jesse; And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, In Him the Gentiles shall hope."
Read the Bible through:
AM – Hosea 11-12 : PM – Jude
Trust in Jesus
Romans 15:7-12
12 “Isaiah says: "There shall be a root of Jesse; And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, In Him the Gentiles shall hope."
A remarkable thing happened on Christmas Eve in the first year of World War I. The gunfire stopped, and the silence was broken by the sound of German voices singing “Stille Nacht” (“Silent Night, Holy Night”). Candle-lit Christmas trees decorated German trenches all down the line. On Christmas Day, soldiers on both sides left their trenches and met in “no man’s land,” shaking hands and exchanging small gifts. For a day, the Christmas Truce of 1914 reminded battle-weary enemies that peace on earth was still a possibility.
In Romans, Paul spoke of another kind of truce, a reconciliation of Jewish and Gentile elements in a Christian community. And he knew that it could be achieved only through faith in the Messiah of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke, the Christ whose birthday would one day inject an interlude of peace into a bitter war.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
