The Faith of Christmas

I would like to share a short message regarding Elements of Christmas; There will be three parts; "The Faith of  Christmas", The Joy of Christmas", and The Peace of Christmas.

1) The Faith of Christmas
I would like to start of the discussion by these verses, Luke 2: 1~20. The Faith of Christmas will be discussing the two main characters which are Joseph and Mary.

**Joseph**
--> Based on the bible, Joseph is a man with deep religious conviction.
He believed in everything in God said through the angel about marrying Mary.  Did you know that last time men are not allowed to marry pregnant women as their wife, because everything will turn out ugly after that. Everyone will have a different mindset on you regarding marrying a wife which already pregnant. But Joseph said OK, no problem! What we learnt from Joseph is that we need to learn to TRUST God completely. However, it is not easy these days for us, human to trust completely on God, especially what lies beyond our comprehension. In this era of technology, it's rather difficult to make people to understand things from the point of spiritual realm/religious thoughts. Holy Spirit teaches us what is opposite the world if you think of it. This is because in 1 John 2:15 the bible teaches us that " "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them". Therefore, NEVER be overly attached to worldly materials, as it only last temporarily; We should invest in something that last eternity. What they learnt these days are all about logic. Agree?

**Mary**
--> As for Mary, she is a little different from Joseph. Mary questioned/doubted the thoughts of a virgin like her will be able to conceive; Luke 1;34  “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” This statement/verse above do apply to us as well. After sometime of accepting Jesus Christ as saviour, our "fire" tends to die down and we began to doubt in God in every aspect. His awesomeness,His power, His mighty and we lost the wonder of God... But I'm here to tell everyone that the God, our Father is still the same; that awesome, mighty, miracle, loving and etc.. However, Mary did obeyed the command at the end in Luke 1;38  “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her. In the end, Mary did find Her way back/ on the track of Faith. What about you?

Conclusion
a) Let's challange ourself that what God says/promises is true and trust in God completely where we
    put our life into God's hand.
b) With Faith, obedience is required.
c) If Joseph and Mary did not have the Faith in God's work and disobeyed God's command, we 
    wouldn't be saved and ofcourse we won't be celebrating Christmas.
d) Have Faith in God!