A Savior has been born … Luke 2
A Savior has arrived - but saving us from what?
I often want Jesus to be my knight in shining armor. I want Him to rescue me from whatever peril I may be in at the time or deliver my loved ones from pain that may have entered their life. We are all looking for a particular kind of deliverer – even the Jewish people of Jesus’ time thought He would be the one to remove their oppressors.
We want delivered from situations – enemies, health crises, and financial distress. It’s easy to see the evil and chaos around us. But during those dark times, it can be harder to see the darkness within.
God will work in and through us in these difficult situations. And sometimes He does rescue us from them. But He came to rescue us from ourselves - our sin and darkness.
He offers us a life we couldn’t obtain on our own. He rescues us from a life chained to selfishness. Jesus gives help through the trying circumstances and not necessarily away from the situation. He offers us Himself.
Jesus didn’t heal every person (though He healed many). He didn’t wipe out the Romans (He came to change them too). Jesus didn’t fix every inconvenience or hardship (yet He fed the hungry and comforted the grieving). He was a different kind of Savior than what the people He encountered were looking for. Sometimes He’s different than what I am looking for.
My greatest need for rescue is from my sin. My Savior came for me. I was what needed saving, redeeming, restoring. I was the problem that needed fixing.
A Savior has been born! Let us shout with gladness! Glory to God in the Highest!
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. John 3:16-17
