GOD’S INDESCRIBABLE
GIFT
For if while we were
enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more,
having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only this, but
we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received the reconciliation. Romans 5:10-11
How do we practically receive reconciliation
and exult God? One answer is: do it
through Jesus Christ. This means make the portrait of Jesus in the Bible, the
work and the words of Jesus portrayed in the New Testament, the essential
content of your exultation over God. Exultation without the content of Crist
does not honor Christ.
Paul describes conversion two ways, in
one way he says it is “seeing the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
And another is “seeing the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ,” (2
Corinthians 4:4-6). In either case one sees the point. We have Christ, the
image of God, and we have God in the face of Christ.
To exult in God, you exult in what you
see and know of God in the portrait of Jesus Christ. This comes to its fullest
experience when the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit,
as Paul wrote in Romans 5:5.
So then here’s the Christmas point.
Not only did God purchase our reconciliation through the death of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and not only did God enable us to receive that reconciliation
through the Lord Jesus Christ, but even
now we exult in God himself through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus purchased our reconciliation.
Jesus enabled us to receive the reconciliation and open the gift. And Jesus
shines forth from the wrapping – the indescribable gift – as God in the flesh,
and stirs up all our exultation in God.
Look to Jesus this Christmas. Receive
the reconciliation that he bought. Don’t put it on the shelf unopened. And don’t
open it and then make it a means to all your other pleasure.
Open it and the gift. Exult in Him.
Make Him your pleasure. Make Him your treasure.
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