This question can be answered briefly by paying attention to who was born (its nature) and why it was born (its mission). The Gospel of Matthew gives us these answers as we speak of this child’s name.
Will she give birth to a son, and should you give him the name of Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins?(Matthew 1:21)
- The first name reported is JESUS.
- Because He came to save us from sin.
- Jesus himself said he came “to seek and save what was lost.
- “The importance of Christmas is that this child once gave his life on a cross for sinners.
- Sinners are people who do not love God to the infinite that he deserves to be loved.
- Or even who do not love his neighbor as themselves.
- Which one of us can pretend to do this at any time?Even in our best moments.
- We are imperfect and therefore sinful.
“The virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a child, and they will call her Emmanuel?Which means “God with us” (Matthew 1:23).
The second name reported is EMANUEL, because this child is not just any human being, but God is with us, God Himself came to be with us in the person of Jesus Christ to save us, this child who was born is both a man and God. And that is why his death on the cross is not a tragedy, but a salvation.
My dear friend, consider these things: that he who was born, whom we celebrate on this emblematic date, was God incarnate, who came to be with us and came to save us, to reconcile us to reconcile with God.
See, do you see a reason for such an act of love and goodness of God?Who even deserves a smile from the Creator?you’ll wonder.
Know that he is not worthy to be with God, but that God sent His Son to reconcile us with Him. Look to Jesus with eyes of faith, confident that He is God with us and that He came to save and be saved. Celebrate with great joy as the wizards did when they saw the Savior.
A Merry Christmas, when we look at our Beautiful Savior, are the vows of Return to the Gospel.
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