The Greatest Journey (Your Christmas Gift)

I observed that many of you readers of my blog are strangers from different parts of the planet. According to the stats, many of you are interested in my travel posts.

Thanks for dropping by to read. I've a Christmas gift for you. Please read on.

Do you know the Christmas season is about the greatest journey ever made?

He (Christ) had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what.

Not at all.

When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human!

Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges.

Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death - and the worst kind of death at that: a crucifixion.

(Philippians 2:6-8, The Message)

I'm blown away thinking of this, everytime. The greatest journey ever made has nothing to do with distance or geographical locations. It has everything to do with our ATTITUDE (see verse 5 in NIV), or our MIND (other versions).

Christ, in all his eternal glory and power, set aside his "God" status for a "man" status, came to SERVE the ultimate service: dying on the cross. Not one second of his life on earth that Jesus wasn't God. The devil knew this and tempted Christ to show off his power. Jesus never use his power to show how great he was, but always to serve, selflessly. He turned water into wine at a wedding, he multiplied bread and fishes to feed the hungry thousands, he healed the sick, cast out demons, and even raised the dead. During his final hours, he could have ordered the legions of angels to rescue (did he even need that?) him from the cross. But the Son of Man chose to serve, right until the very end.

The cross is not so much of the journey to Golgotha, where he was crucified and hung out to die. But the decision to make the journey from preexistence (where he was God), to incarnation (becoming a man, born as a baby), to crucifixion (die on the cross).

He travelled the greatest ever journey for you and for me.

What will you do about it, now that you know?

Will you accept this greatest gift?

My prayer for you is that you'll make this most important journey for yourself.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010!