If You Want To Be Free

Luke 2:7
And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because........
There was no room for them in the inn....

No room for Him....
No time for Him.....
He is an obtrusion to the so called "Fun" people want to have during their lifetime.
You'd think someone who got their start in a stable, would want to better themselves.
As they got older, you'd think they'd want to hobnob with the elite.
Hang out with the social set. The mover and shakers of real life in the city.
While He was not adverse to such things, He never made it His single target as He lived here in this old, dark, sinful world.
He was with, what the upwardly mobile folks called, the masses.
The down and out...
The oppressed and spiritually hopeless.
He came for the sick and the poor.
But not sickness or poverty measured by a wallet or purse...
But in the heart.

He came to touch.
Up close and personal.
He was not afraid to reach out to anyone.
Whether it was Jairus, the religious ruler, coming because religion had failed him and now his daughter lay sick and dying....
Or 10 lepers bound together by their collective misery. 
Raising people from the dead.....healing the sick.....casting out and off demons that had tormented people for years....blind given sight....deaf the ability to hear....
But even with all this action going on..
The greatest gift was yet to be given.
On a hill outside the gates of Jerusalem, Jesus chose to die. He allowed Himself to go through the humiliating process of Crucifixion. He allowed Himself to be nailed to a rough, hand hewn apparatus we call a cross. Nailed...through His very flesh. There in that abject place of misery and pain and agony, He poured out his very blood as payment for the rebellion and sin of His very own creation. You and me and every other person who has lived and died on planet earth. He paid a price that was so high, in order for me to absolve it and satisfy it, I would have to give my own life, thereby cutting me off from real relationship with Him.
Jesus came to touch them. To touch you. To touch me.

So in this Christmas season, if you find yourself filled with turmoil and doubt...
IF you find that you are miserable, emotionally and spiritually...
You may need to come to Christ and ask for that touch.
If you want to be free...I mean really free....
You got to let that fire burn you.....
The fire of God that will burn away the misery...the emptiness and the loneliness....
You got to let that cross touch you....
The blood will get on you...hands, feet, all over....
But His blood is the very ticket that opens the door to a new way to life.
Why not this Christmas receive the greatest gift a person could ever hope to get.
God himself.
The real deal, honest-to-gosh, red-alert, God of the Bible, creator of the universe wants to have a relationship with you.
Think on these things....

Merry Christmas from the "B's" in Attalla.