No baby has ever come into the world more feared and hated than was Baby Jesus.
Herod the king sent his soldiers out to scour the countryside around Bethlehem to kill every male child two years old or younger (Matt. 2:16-18). What hatred against our Baby!
This demonic hatred of Jesus points to the attitude which the whole world shows to the Savior; the apostle Paul says that “the carnal mind is enmity against God” (Rom. 8:7).
John says that Jesus “came unto His own, and His own received Him not” (1:11). He “was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not” (1:10).
Thanks to our fallen father Adam, his long arm has reached down to where we are 6000 years later and has imbued us with what this Adam-given “enmity against God” implies. None of us can claim exemption from this Adam-given inheritance.
We can easily test ourselves: we say that “we love Jesus,” but do we love His word, the Bible?
None of us can truly love Jesus more than we love the Bible. If we have a few moments of leisure, what do we turn to for amusement, for interest?
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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