Long ago, the very first
Christmas, no one expected the Savior of the world to come as a baby. Prophets like Isaiah, Jeremiah and Hosea
foretold a King was coming – the Messiah.
But a King come as a baby?
Seriously?
Angels announced His birth
in the heavenly glories. Shepherds came
to worship. The angel had told them that
Christ, the Lord, was born and they would find Him wrapped in cloths in a
manger.
They found a baby wrapped
in an old blanket and born in a manger.
They spread the word concerning what they had been told about this baby
and all were amazed at what the shepherds said.
But a baby who would be the Savior of the world? I wonder if that is what they expected. I doubt it.
That got me to thinking –
what do I expect from Jesus? What are
my expectations? I will call my Jesus expectations: Xpectations, k?
Xpectations
He knows all – everything – and He sees it too
He is One with His Father – They are the same
He loves . . . everybody
He forgives – even the unforgivable
He can – He can satisfy, He can do, He can.
Okay, so if those are my
Xpectations then why don’t I live them?
Just writing them down here, and reading them over and over I question
myself, do I really expect all this from Jesus or is this just what I think I can expect?
The Apostle John testifies
to Who Jesus is and what to expect from Him.
He starts out with:
In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He
(Jesus) was with God in the beginning.
Through
Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him
was life, and that life was the light of men.
Jesus
says (later in John 4) to the woman at the well:
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever
drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him
will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
To
really expect this – truly – puts our faith to a test, don’t you think? I want a faith that Xpects – I want to peer
into the manger as the shepherds did and not see a baby in a blanket but see
the Savior of the world – think about that – now THAT is some faith! And they so believed it they told others and
they believed it.
I
want to sing as Simeon did when he saw the baby Jesus:
Now,
Lord, You have kept Your promise,
and
You may let Your servant go in peace.
With
my own eyes I have seen Your salvation,
which
You have prepared in the presence of all peoples:
A
light to reveal Your will to the Gentiles and bring
glory
to your people Israel
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