Today is Christmas Day
Today's readings are Psalm 96:1-5, 11-13, Isaiah 49:1-18, and Matthew 1:1-17.
This is the day that Christians around the world proclaim Christ's birth. We welcome our newborn king, lord of all. In our readings on this day we see all creation singing the praises of God. We see that God has delivered Israel from bondage through the child, the servant of Israel, born to bring Jacob back to the God who is his refuge. We see that the Lord has comforted his people and will never forget them. And we see in our reading from Matthew that Jesus is born of the lineage of Abraham, the one born to be a blessing to all nations, redeeming them from the curse.
Thanks be to God the Son, the deliverer of all who trust in him! He who did not consider equality with God something to be grasped but humbled himself has come to take on our sin and shame, giving us his divine nature.
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