Hanningfield Green 

Lawshall 

Bury St Edmunds 

Suffolk 

IP29 4QD 

Just a Thought

Someone has said: “To the natural human mind the life of Jesus is bracketed by two seeming impossibilities - a virgin’s womb and an empty tomb. Jesus entered our world through a door marked, “No Entrance,” and left through a door marked, “No Exit.”

God declared through the prophet Isaiah that He would take on a human body and be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7 v 14), and about seven hundred years later He kept His word when Jesus was born of Mary (Luke 1 vs 26 -35). However, just as on that first Christmas, there was no room for Jesus in the inn, not much has changed since, as the world never wants to make room for Christ at Christmas or in everyday life.

Jesus declared that He was hated by the world because He said that peoples’ deeds were evil (John 7 v 7). After a life of doing only good they proved His words true by having Him killed. They put His body in a tomb and sealed it with a huge stone to shut Him out of our lives forever. But God removed the stone and raised Him from the dead to prove that Jesus will not be shut up or shut out of His plans. One day Jesus will return to this earth again; but He will be coming as a judge not as a saviour. And the way to be ready is to willingly submit your life to Him today. Will you continue to shut Jesus out or will you let Him in? There is no other name given amongst men by which we must be saved. Acts 4 v 12