Holy Invasion
John Fischer

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news of peace and salvation! (Isaiah 52:7 NLT)

Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere.

Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born!

Jesus had a purpose when He came to earth. He was a man on a mission. He knew where He came from, where He was going, and what He came here to do. He never doubted it once, except when He was in the garden, and even then, He didn’t doubt His mission, He only struggled with the reality of completing it. We are all eternally grateful that, when faced with His darkest hour, Christ chose God’s will instead of His own. He was able to make that choice because He was a man on a mission, and in the end, the mission won out.

Christmas is, at its heart, the celebration of an invasion. God invaded earth. Not content to just stay in heaven, God came to earth in human form to overcome the evil in our lives and reclaim the good. Because Christ was born and He accomplished His mission, there is help from above—help only God could bring. Jesus Christ has joined the human caravan. Creator became created. Adam and Eve passed on to us their propensity toward sinning. It’s in our DNA. But Christ is the new Adam. He was born of a virgin, a child of the earth, but born through a seed that was conceived of God. The result is a man, fully human, but with God’s DNA in His veins. Only this perfect blood could atone for the sins of the world. Only this life could be an acceptable sacrifice.

And we have become partakers of this new life by faith. This is what it means to be born again—to be born into a new bloodline through Christ, and have God’s DNA (the Holy Spirit) in you to help you be more like Christ.

Jesus Christ was on a mission of love. His purpose was to love us so much that He would lay down His life for us. We have a mission, too. Our mission is to love people so much that we will tell them the good news about what Jesus did. There is hope! There is forgiveness! There is a new life we can live through the Holy Spirit! God did not stay aloof to our predicament; He invaded our flesh and blood and altered it for eternity!

Tell it on the mountain or over the hill—tell it everywhere: Jesus Christ is born, and because of it, nothing is the same!

PDL