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Scripture Meditation – No: 1,417
AATHAVAN – December 25, 2024 | Wednesday
“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” (John 1:11)
The Almighty God, who created this world and all living beings in it, came to the world as a man. This world and its people belong to Him, yet when He came into the world, no one received Him. There was no room for Him in the inn at His birth (Luke 2:7); no place to lay His head during His life (Matthew 8:20); and no personal tomb for His burial after His death (Matthew 27:59-60).
Though He came into the world primarily for the Jews, not all of them received Him. They even crucified Him. To receive Him means to accept His words and live by them. Did He not say, “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day” (John 12:48)? Therefore, accepting Him means accepting His Word and living it out.
Even though He performed many miracles and wonders, many Jews did not believe in Him. As it is written: “But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?” (John 12:37-38).
Today, we too may have received countless blessings through Christ and experienced His miracles, but that alone is not sufficient. We must know Him personally as our Father. Merely identifying ourselves as Christians does not make us true followers of Christ. True Christians are those who have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in them. “Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his” (Romans 8:9).
Beloved, if we receive Him into our hearts today, we will become His chosen people, His children. “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12). Being His child means we have accepted Him. This experience is the essence of being born again.
Only by living this spiritual experience can we confidently say we have received Him. Otherwise, we will merely celebrate Christ’s birth as the birth of an ordinary man. He came unto His own, but if we fail to receive Him, we remain among those who rejected Him.
Gospel Message by Brother M. Geo Prakash
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