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Welcome to the JCPC Daily Reflections Blog. Reflections are daily devotionals authored by JCPC pastors, staff and members and provide insight, guidance and comfort to help you make it through each day. If you’d like to receive Reflections each day via email,  provide your email address.

Friday, December 06 2019

According to an old story, a man named Nicholas (born in 

ad 270) heard about a father who was so poor that he couldn't feed his three daughters, much less provide for their future marriages.

 

Wanting to assist the father, but hoping to keep his help a secret, Nicholas threw a bag of gold through an open window, which landed in a sock or shoe drying on the hearth. That man was known as St. Nicholas, who later became the inspiration for Santa Claus.

 

When I heard that story of a gift coming down from above, I thought of God the Father, who out of love and compassion sent to earth the greatest gift, His Son, through a miraculous birth. According to Matthew's gospel, Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament prophecy that a virgin would conceive and give birth to a son whom they would call Immanuel, meaning "God with us" (1:23).

 

As lovely as Nicholas' gift was, how much more amazing is the gift of Jesus? He left heaven to become a man, died and rose again, and is God living with us. He brings us comfort when we're hurting and sad; He encourages us when we feel downhearted; He reveals the truth to us when we might be deceived.

 

Prayer for Today

Jesus, thank You for the way You left Your Father to be born in humble circumstances. May I never take for granted Your presence in my life.  Amen.

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