We Must Do Our Part

God did His part by giving His Son, the greatest Christmas gift, God’s great gift to the human race. But we must do something. We must humble ourselves. We must admit our sins. We must admit that we’re moral failures and turn to Him by faith. We must say as the publican did, “God, have mercy on me, a sinner” (Luke 18:13). The Scripture says that a broken and a contrite heart God will not despise (Psalm 34:18). If we as individuals and as a nation would humble ourselves and turn from our sins, God has promised forgiveness, healing to the nation, and eternal life to the individual (2 Chronicles 7:14).

This is the good news that the world is morally, psychologically, and spiritually longing for. Some may dismiss it as idiotic and ridiculous that a man dying 2000 years ago could be relevant today. The apostle Paul anticipated we’d say that when he said in 1 Corinthians 1:18 (Phillips Translation),

“The preaching of the cross is, I know, nonsense to those who are involved in this dying world. But to us who are being saved from that death, it’s nothing less than the power of God.”