Do You Believe?

"...but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name"
– John 20:31

During Christmas, we celebrate the Lord’s Incarnation. God came in the flesh to dwell among men (John 1:14). Yet, it was so much more than that because He had a purpose. It is like a book of the Bible. It is always good to understand the aim of each book. To know the meaning is to understand its intent. I love the purpose of the Gospel of John. Its purpose is “that you might believe.” That each one of us might believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior because He came to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10).

God works in many ways, but what has impacted me is how God can do the supernatural naturally. God sent His Son, Jesus our Messiah, through the virgin birth. Galatians 4:4 says, “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” God’s purpose in sending His son was for redemption because we are all guilty of sin and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). No one can fulfill and live by the law. There is no forgiveness in it, and you break one, you break them all (James 2:10). Yet when Christ came, He lived a sinless life and was the perfect sacrifice that the law required (Hebrews 10:11-12).

We have such a loving God. We think of Him sometimes as a God of judgment and forget to remember His other attributes. David reminded us of who our Creator is when he wrote, “The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.” Our Heavenly Father desires salvation for those willing to call upon His name. The book of John was written with the same heart, that every one of us might believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Do you believe?

“On that first Christmas over 2,000 years ago, God did something that we can barely grasp: He became a man. Think of it: The God who created the universe stooped down from Heaven and became a human being!”
- Billy Graham