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As Christmas approaches and we turn our focus to baby Jesus, its important to reflect on the bigger picture of how this baby fit's into God's mission in the world.
Jesus was with God in the beginning when he made the world, and when people turned against God and went their own way. In response to people's rebellion, God set a plan in motion to reconcile all people to himself. God loves all the people of the earth and wants an eternal relationship with every single one of us. So he sent his son Jesus to be born a human, and reveal to us what God is like and teach us how to best live as God's created beings in relationship with God and in unity with others. God's ultimate goal for all humankind is to gather us all around his throne and worship him together, forever. There's a wonderful image of this depicted in Revelation 7:9-17. As we catch a glimpse of God's end goal for all humanity, we gain a greater perspective on how we are to live as his people here and now. We are to be playing our part in his mission in the world, just like Jesus did. These truths are what we will be focussing on this coming Sunday so we can go into Christmas with a full understanding and appreciation of what Jesus' birth is really all about.
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