Hear Ye, Hear Ye

Okay so I’ve used the excuse of “writer’s block” for too long now.

Besides…Writer’s Block is a figment of your…uh….uh….uh…

Yeah anyways.. lol… I’ll have to write my blog on my “Writer’s Block” at another time.

So if you’ve been in the news lately (which I haven’t, but I do catch stuff on the radio and internet) you’ve heard that the royal birth has happened. Yeah…what were their names again? (Sorry I had to look it up.) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge; Prince William and Kate and they introduced that they had a baby boy. 

So what was his name…? 

They didn’t have one yet.  Now I’m sure like any other parents the names have been talked about for a while and they were just waiting for a certain date to announce it. Not sure of the tradition but they finally came out and named him George Alexander Louis.  Sounds like a name of royalty to me. There was even some random guy announce the birth.

 Which makes me think of a name that was announced way before the birth of a child.

It was the name of a King. The name JESUS

Luke 1:28-33

²⁸ Gabriel appeared to Mary and said, “Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you!”

²⁹ Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean. ³⁰ “Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her, “for you have found favor with God! ³¹ You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. ³² He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. ³³ And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end!”

July 22, 2013 people stopped as this royal birth was announced. Maybe you heard it and kept moving throughout your day. Maybe you stopped and re-tweeted it or posted it on Facebook. But I wonder how many stopped the day Jesus Christ was born, how many re-tweeted, forwarded an email or posted on their wall.

Did Jesus have a guy dressed up with a fancy scroll? No, he had even better.

Luke 2:9-14

⁹Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord’s glory surrounded them. They were terrified, ¹⁰ but the angel reassured them. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people. ¹¹ The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David! ¹² And you will recognize him by this sign: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in strips of cloth, lying in a manger.”

¹³ Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God and saying,

¹⁴ “Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.”

And then the tweeting began… (Okay, they didn’t have Twitter back then but check it out)

Luke 2:15-20

¹⁵ When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, “Let’s go to Bethlehem! Let’s see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

¹⁶ They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger. ¹⁷ After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child. ¹⁸ All who heard the shepherds’ story were astonished, ¹⁹ but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often. ²⁰ The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them.

Our faith in Jesus doesn’t revolve around the announcement of His birth. 

We could go around and tell people all day that Jesus was born. 

But what really matters is that He’s ALIVE!

Have you shared that announcement lately? 
We're willing to share everything else... 

Does Jesus Christ dwell in your heart?
If He does then we should not be ashamed...

Can you boldly go through your day knowing that Christ is alive and lives in you?
If so,  then Make Him Known