~ Jesus’ Birth Reveals God’s Plan

Jesus’ Birth Reveals God’s Plan
Do you ever wonder if God has got something wrong? The perfect universe that He created in six days complete with the perfect couple to have fellowship with was spoilt in short order by the couple doing the one thing that He told them not to.
We know that Adam and Eve had God’s very own spirit in them. Was He too generous in endowing them with what ultimately spoilt the creation, free will?
It is the essential element in relationship, and that is the reason for God’s creation a people who He could have a friendship with. But was that the weakness in His creative intent and what lead to the fall of mankind?
Many times we can almost hear someone thinking out loud, “God have you lost the plot” just to list a few:
Noah build an ark,
Abram this time next year you’re a dad, at 99,
Moses at the burning bush
Mary when being told of the coming of a Son,
The Apostles after the crucifixion,
Ananias of Damascus on being sent to meet Paul.
But the thing is not to sort out how, when, or whether God did get it wrong the evidence of these examples shows that Father God had a plan to restore the relationship broken by the fall of Adam and Eve. This plan was told to the people of God by His prophets as something to look forward to but was never more explicit than when Joseph had an angelic visitation
“... you, Joseph, will name him Jesus—'God saves'—because he will save his people from their sins." Matt 1:20, 21
Jesus was born to be, as His name states, God (who) saves. He was no afterthought. The creation story uses the plural every time that a new action is mentioned, Jesus was involved in the creative process just as He is in the redemptive one. All too often we separate the two periods of Jesus life but they are inextricably connected, consider what Simeon had to say to Jesus’ parents.
““ 34 Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, 35 so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.” Luke 2:34, 35.
God was not content to walk away from His creation that had been fractured by the disobedience of mankind. He valued the relationship that He had before man’s failure and had a plan to fight back, to eventually restore the relationship to as many who chose to enter into friendship with Him. That plan was to create a second Adam, one who was the son of a woman and yet was obedient to the ultimate extent.
Jesus is God’s solution, there is no backup plan. He was born as one of us, to live as one of us, and to die as one of us so that some of us may choose the salvation He offers. In this way He restores us to fellowship with Father, a fellowship that has been the most valued between man and God ever since mankind was moved from the garden that Adam and Eve no longer had the right to live.
In all this God is faithful to us, He promised a seed of woman who would destroy the serpent. Jesus is that son a woman to be God’s solution fo