By Pastor Daniel Yaw
 
Introduction
It is December 2021 already!  Christmas is just round the corner.  Even FCC has put up some Christmas decorations.  Two Christmases ago, we had a wonderful gathering and “makan” together and then the covid 19 began to invade the world.  Everything changed henceforth.

We have been talking about changes all the time since the pandemic and indeed it had.  The way we shop, eat, tour, travel, do church, ministries – all have changed. We no longer do them the way we did before.

However, some things do not change – and one of those is the meaning and message of Christmas.
 
I have come…..
This month of December, we are looking at this “unchanging” theme and message of all time – that Christ came.  Christmas time is always the time of debate as to whether 25 December is the right date or not.  For sure, it is not!  The problem is that some having known this fact, began to abandon the whole Christmas celebration.

Well, there are many things that need abandoning – but I believe the message and meaning of Christmas will always be the same.  It is a time to remember what God has done for mankind and what better time to do that than a date agreed for centuries, that is 25 December.

As I was thinking and rethinking of this great event in history, I put up a pulpit series based on this theme – “I have come”

What has Jesus come for?  May this month be a time of that reflection and come and listen to what God is saying to us.

I believe it is a message to both Christians and pre-believers alike – a message that we can carry and a message we can respond to.  That Jesus’ coming was not an accident, a coincident, not an after thought, but deliberated, planned, prophesied and executed at the right time.
 

John 1:11	He came to his own, and his own receive him not
John 8:42	I am from God and I am here, I came not on my own
Mark 2:17	I came not to call the righteous, but sinners
John 10:10	I came that they may have life
Rev 22:20	I am coming soon!

 
I will come again….
Then the message of Christmas is also the promise that Christ will return – this time in all His glory to usher a new kingdom.  His part of the prophesy, prophesied thousands of years.

With our current situation, the promise of his return is getting even closer than ever before.  The signs of the last days are getting clearer each day.  Will we welcome Him this time?  Will it be like before that he came and his own receive him not?
 
Conclusion
May we all have a wonderful but different Christmas this year, but nonetheless a very blessed one.  I pray for all of us that Christmas will always be dear to our hearts – like in the words of Mary, the mother of Jesus who was said, “She kept all these things in her heart.”  May we make ready the way of the Lord by proclaiming the good news of Christ’s coming.