Merry Christmas from all of us at Drake Siding and Sunrooms…
May your holidays be filled with joy and the coming year be overflowing with all the good things in life.
I wanted to share some thoughts about Christmas and what it means to me…
Enjoy!
Warmly,
Don Drake
In the beginning, God…
…was too big to comprehend.
In the beginning, God could not be embraced.
In the beginning, God could not even be seen by angels.
In the beginning, God’s presence was a terrifying, roiling furnace of creation born out of chaos.
From the beginning, Yahweh was wrapped in the Cloud of Unknowing, and He alone, in the person of Yeshua Messiah, Angel of the Lord’s Face, Son and Heir, could enter and emerge from God’s presence to speak to the legions of angel armies.
In the beginning, Yahweh created man and woman with a loving relationship in mind.
Mankind’s first father and mother had not loved God in return. They had turned away. After that, they had feared him… The kind of fear that made them run and stumble away from him instead of running toward him for mercy.
From that time on, what mankind could not touch, they proclaimed did not exist. What they could not comprehend, they mocked.
Like color and light to a blind man, they could not imagine God’s power and righteousness and love for them.
So, the word became flesh…and dwelt among us…stepping down from eternity into time… In flesh, the form of a babe, to grow into a man. A form that could be recognized… seen, touched, comprehended and not feared.
His heraldic announcement from the angels… Do not be afraid, I bring you good tidings.
He came with a message from the Father that we need not be afraid of him anymore. Come to me is his message. Call on my name and be saved. Ask mercy, ask forgiveness and it would be granted. My desire is to restore the loving relationship we once had… is God’s message.
Bethlehem, House of bread… The living bread comes down from heaven and dwells among us, to feed us and give us life.
In Migdal Eder, the pasture raising place of the lambs that are korban set aside for God. In Bethlehem, the home of David, the shepherd King, our own shepherd King was born.
Bethlehem, where the first born lambs, without blemish, perfect, are raised for temple sacrifice, their blood an atonement for our sins.
In a Bethlehem cave, where expectant ewes are gathered to give birth to these sacrificial lambs, was the lamb of God born.
Laid in a manger, a feeding trough, was laid the Bread from Heaven, born in Bethlehem, the house of bread.
The very stars proclaimed his coming. Wise men, who knew how to read these signs, came looking for him to worship him and give gifts befitting a King.
Shepherds, the keepers of the flocks of lambs that are set aside for sacrifice were the first to hear the announcement of his birth. They found the Lamb of God, in a lambing cave…what more fitting place for the Lamb of God to be born.
Yeshua Jesus, The word of God, born into flesh into a form that…we could comprehend, we could see, and touch with a message of hope and salvation.
Yeshua, which means salvation, was given to us.
Merry Christmas!
Don Drake
