Hope for Christmas – Don’t Be Afraid
- BE AFRAID! MARVEL AT GOD’S GREATNESS.
An angel of the Lord appeared to them (shepherds), and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. Luke 2:9
GOD IS REALLY BIG.
‘We think that the sun is very large with its planets circling around it. But if you study astronomy—even elementary astronomy—you will learn that there are suns so large that each one could absorb our sun, all of its planets and all of the satellites that revolve around those planets into itself. They say that there are suns that are so large you could put millions of our suns into them. I GIVE UP, I don’t even try to understand it.’ AW Tozer, The Attributes of God
- YOU DON’T NEED TO BE AFRAID.
But the angel of the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Luke 2:10
TAKE COURAGE! IT IS I. DON’T BE AFRAID. Matthew 14:27
- BECAUSE OF JESUS WE HAVE HOPE.
Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. Luke 2:11
JOY TO THE WORLD – ISAAC WATTS
No more let sings and sorrows grow nor thorns infest the ground: He comes to make His blessings flow far as the curse is found.
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:31-39