I'd like to share another great Christmas illustration.
Christmas Illustration #2: Plastic Surgeon
There's a married couple who lived happily. One day, the husband got an accident. He got disfigured. Feeling embarassed of his condition, he stopped talking to and interacting with people around him including his wife.
His wife got so sad about this. She asked him what she could do to cheer him up? Again, the husband didn't reply to her question. Got frustrated with the situation, the wife went to a famous plastic surgeon. She told him the story about the accident and the situation in her family that it had caused. So the plastic surgeon offered, "Would you like me to fix his face?"
And the plastic surgeon got an answer that he could never forget.
The wife says, "No. I want you to disfigure me so that my husband can take me back into his life."
Of course the plastic surgeon didn't fulfill her wish. But he got so moved by her story that he decided to visit the husband. The plastic surgeon knocked on the bedroom door where the husband's at.
Plastic Surgeon: "Open the door, I'm a plastic surgeon. I can fix your face."
(Dead silent)
Plastic Surgeon: "You don't have to pay for the surgery."
(Dead silent)
Finally, the plastic surgeon shouted through the door what he really was there for, "Come out, your wife came to me asking me to disfigure her face so that you can take her back into your life."
The door knob was slightly turned and the door's opened.
So what does this story mean to us?
God the King of kings humbled Himself, left His throne, and "disfigured" Himself to come to the sinful world where we live in. He definitely didn't deserve that. But He did it anyway so that we may be freed from sins. Because He is our Savior, He saves us from our sins so that He may be known through us and in us.
In this Christmas spirit, do you know that God is the Lord our Savior? Do you accept Him as your personal Savior? Does He live in you?
May this be a blessing!
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