CHRIST AND FAMILY PLANNING

FAMILY PLANNING TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: “For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). DAILY FIRE! Jesus Christ was born because He wanted to be born. Nobody else has ever chosen to be born, because people like us have never had that kind of choice!  Jesus was not the result of family planning; He planned His birth Himself with the Father in heaven. But He planned the family of God, including its redemption by His own blood. The Son of God knew what life with us would be like: and yet He wanted to come to be with us.  He came to a primitive home in a crude age, with basic food and hard work; and knew that He would be cruelly executed. Why on earth should He want to be on earth and endure and suffer such a life?  The answer is that He wanted to be our Redeemer. He was determined to join the human race at all costs. He called Himself by only one title: “the Son of Man” (Matthew 20:28) identifying Himself with the human race. Isaiah’s words,  “Unto us a Child is born” (Isaiah 9:6), express solidarity with us. Even more, Jesus went for total involvement, being “numbered with the transgressors” (Isaiah 53:12).  Again and again, the Bible uses two words: “ for us.” He did not choose to be born for His own benefit, for anything He could get out of it for Himself. Everything that He was and could do was only for His family. He drew His very breath for us, for the family. He is the greatest Gift that you have this Christmas Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2015 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com

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