This
has been around for a long time. I don’t know who wrote it, but it always makes
me think about Jesus’ impact on the world. Enjoy!
He was
born in an obscure village,
Earthly
riches were not important to Him
He did
not travel extensively, only once did
He
crossed the boundary of the country in which He lived,
In
infancy He startled a King, in childhood He amazed Jewish leaders,
He
worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty.
He
then became an itinerant preacher.
He
never held office.
He
never had a family or owned a house.
He
didn’t go to college.
He had
no credentials but himself.
He
healed multitudes without medicine,
He
made no charge for His service,
He
never wrote a book, and yet all the libraries of the world could not hold the
volumes that have been written about Him,
He
never wrote a song, and yet He has furnished the theme for more songs than all
the songwriters combined,
He
never founded a College, but all the schools put together cannot boast of
having as many students,
He
never practiced psychiatry, and yet has healed more broken hearts than all the
Doctors far and near,
He was
only thirty-three when the public turned against him.
The
devil tried to destroy Him, but the grave could not hold Him.
His
Name stands highest of the heavenly glory, acknowledged by angels and feared by
devils
Nineteen
centuries have come and gone,
And
today he is the central figure of the human race.
All
the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed,
All
the parliaments that ever sat,
And
all the kings that ever reigned
have
not affected the life of man on this earth
As much
as that one solitary life.
May
all of you have Merry and Spirit filled Christmas!
