-Strength for Today- "The Night God Invaded Time and Space. - Galatians 4:4.

     Over two thousand years ago, God’s process, stated in Genesis 3:15, and embraced by His prophets, came to past. This process was a divine “undoing,” of “Adam’s chaotic act of disobedience in the Garden of Eden.” Which, disqualified him from anything pleasurable to God – Genesis 1:27. 

    So, the priority of making “peace with God,” can only come through by His “miraculous” hand. So, it was there “sovereignly,”, and “prophetically,” for the first time, God allowed “space” and “time” stand in their place in “obscurity.” And in doing do, “space, “at the command of God, hued out a dimension in “Bethlehem Ephratah,” (Micah 5:2), and “stayed” it’s intended course until, “...the fullness of the time was come...,” This in itself was “miraculous,” because without the seed of sinful man, "God sent forth His Son, “made of a woman, (Galatians 4:4), who was who was His chosen vessel – Luke 1:26-28. 

     It was on this night that “space” was fulfilled when “time,” according to the movement of God allowed His Son to step out of glory, and fulfil the prophecy of Genesis 3:15. When God invaded the “darkness” of this world, His Son, the “light of the world,” was born, into a Jewish family in Israel. As such, He was born "...under the law” – Galatians 4:4d.  

Jesus was “the only human being ever to keep the law perfectly.” In doing so, He later declared that He had "fulfilled" the law” -Matthew 5:17. Galatians 3:13-14 says, “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”  

  So, this Christmas, you have a decision to make. It’s a decision about God’s grace and how He marked out a “space” in “time” so that “in that manger in Bethlehem,” “hope” and “salvation” was made available for you and me! 

Author Plez lovelady, Jr., PhD