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    OUR DAILY BREAD                    Saturday, December 25, 1993
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    Read:  Galatians 4:1-7

                              IT'S A FACT!

                 When the fullness of the time had come,
                God sent forth His Son, born of a woman.
                             --Galatians 4:4

    I was a child when I first heard that December 25 may not be  the
    actual  date of our Savior's birth.  I remember wondering how  we
    could  really celebrate His birthday if we don't know the day  He
    was  born.  As time went on, however, I came to realize that  the
    precise  date is not the important thing.  It's the fact  of  the
    incarnation that counts.

    "When the fullness of the time had come" -- whether December  25,
    January 6, April 20, or whatever the date -- the Savior was born.
    That's  what  is so meaningful to us.  No one who is  willing  to
    consider  the evidence can deny the truth that "the  Word  became
    flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14).

    Yes, God's Son really did enter this world at a certain point  in
    human  history.  There's no question about it.  He did  come!  He
    did  live!  He did die!  He did arise from the  dead!  The  exact
    date  is  incidental, but the fact that He came  to  earth  means
    everything, for "the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that
    which was lost" (Luke 19:10).

    How fitting, then, that we pause at this season to praise God for
    the marvelous gift of His love!  Let's thank Him today that there
    was born "a Savior, who is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:11).  It's  a
    fact!

    Author:  Richard W. De Haan

                       Long ago a Child came down
                        To a little sleepy town,
                      And upon that Christmas morn
                   Christ the heavenly King was born.
                                --Freeman

    THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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    Christ was born on earth below that we might be born from  heaven
    above.

    THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  2 John, 3 John, Jude

          
          

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