All About Him

I was back in Galatians 4 this week and I was mostly processing through the first part of verse 4…

“But when the fullness of time had come…”

All week I was thinking about our current place in time and how that relates to Christmas.

Our current place in time is in the middle.

What am I talking about?  In the middle?

I really like boiling things down to the simplest level.  I try not to get too buried in the complexities until I have first started with the groundwork.  In our timeline’s simplest form I see it like this…

Before Christ Came

1^st Coming

In the Middle

2^nd Coming

The prophesies were made and so many waited and anticipated the promised Savior’s birth.  They didn’t know it, but they were waiting for the very first Christmas.  Words can never express all Christ accomplished in His first coming (John 21:25), but we know He came; He lived, He healed, He taught, He died and rose again completing the work God the Father had given Him.  Then, He promised He would come back again.  We live in anticipation of His coming again – in the middle of the two comings.

What an amazing blessing it is to live here and now – in the middle.

We celebrate Christmas because we live in the middle.

When the fullness of time had come, He was born.

The fullness of time is coming again.

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