Our Father has provided so many illustrations of what it means to believe in His eternal plan through Jesus. How clear does it have to be for us to be all in for the Prince of Peace, Everlasting Father? Jesus is the key to unlock the door. He stands knocking on our door, wanting full access to all that we are. Without Him, we are left to our own efforts to find meaning and purpose, which has a hopeless outcome. Without Jesus we grope around in the dark. He is the key, the light, the word which has intervened in our space and time.
“God not only knew that in our foolishness we would tend to be more attracted to what is not true than what is true, but He also knew that our foolishness would make us forget Him rather than make Him the hope of our hearts. So here is another way to think of the Christmas story: our God of wisdom sent His Son, who is Wisdom, to shed His grace on fools so that by His grace they would be rescued from themselves and become wise. A fool has no ability whatsoever to rescue himself from his own foolishness. A fool is always a person in need of external rescue. The Christmas story is about God being willing to provide that rescue.” - Paul David Tripp, Come, Let Us Adore Him: A Daily Advent Devotional
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