December 07, 2025
Greetings and blessings to all of you. This is the Christmas season. It is all about our Savior Jesus Christ from now until the end of the month. But Christians will continue to celebrate His arrival forever. Why did Jesus come into this world? Did you know that some mothers do not want to have children because they say the world is full of evil and suffering? But Jesus Christ came into this world full of evil and suffering…Why? Just know- that Evil and Suffering will end when Jesus returns. In John 16:33 “….in this world you will have trouble. But take heart ...I have overcome the world” We as Christians look forward to the New Heavens and the New Earth. In the scriptures, you recall the Creation. God worked for six Days “and God said that it was all good”. Next came the Corruption. The world we see today- like the days of old- where right is wrong and wrong is right; full of sickness and death, continuing deterioration of moral character among humanity; the increasing hostility toward the values of God and the status and condition of God’s chosen people the Israelites. The “very good” in the Creation period is gone because of the sin of Adam and Eve. As time went by God looked at the people “the Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.” This era was called the Catastrophe. God was so grieved that he determined to destroy with the flood everything except Noah and his family. A new generation was born. The Confusion era entered in. Again, they disobeyed God. They built the Tower of Babel to honor themselves and not God their creator. God said in Gen.11:7-8 “…let’s go down and confuse their language. So that they may not understand one another speech.” But God did not leave his people even in their Confused, Corrupted, Disobedient, Evil state. The good news of this sad tale is that God did not abandon his creation after Adam’s sin! He promised that one day he would send a Savior, the Seed(offspring) of a woman, to bruise (crush, break) the head of the serpent (Gen, 3:15). In John 10:10 Christ says, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it more abundantly.” And in Luke 19:10 He said, “He came to seek and to save the lost.” Welcome to the Christmas season!
With the Love of Christ
First Lady Vivian C. Currie
Pastor ALC