Marred

She will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. - Matthew 1:21

During an all-night festival in Paris, five young people, apparently drunk, broke into the Orsay Museum and left a 4-inch gash in a priceless painting by Claude Monet. Culture Minister Christine Albanel said the paiting could be restored, but she was deeply disturbed at the damage done by "a purely criminal act."

One news headline read: "Monet Masterpiece Marred." To mar is to injured or damage; to spoil, disfigure, or impair. It's an apt description of sin's effect on us. We know well the results of our own choices made in ignorance or defiance of God.

As we approach Christmas, it's good to remember why Jesus was born. The Son of God did not come to establish a nostalgic, family-oriented, commercially successful holiday. The angel told Joseph: "[Mary] will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins" (Matt. 1:21).

Christmas began with a present from God to His sin-damaged world: "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 6:23).

The masterpiece of God's human creation, marred by turning away from Him, can be restored when we gave our hearts to Christ. - David C. McCasland

He came into this world a babe,

This world that He Himself had made;

He came to do the Father's will,

That ended on dark Calvary's hill. - Newstrom

Jesus came to earth to repair our sin-dameged lives.

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I loved to recieve present... that's why I would like to have a brithday party or whatever event that can makes me get a present... but I never knew that God had gave me the most precious present since 2000 years ago...

No matter what, it couldn't be compare with God's gift - the salvation - eternal life... No one can make it except Father Lord...

Sometimes I will think of... we sinners become a Christian is because of Jesus Christ had die for our sins that we should carry it ourselves or because we want to have eternal life?, want to enter heaven after death?...

I was giving myself a question without answer... yet I still think that it is important to identify my motif to become a Christian... I don't want just going to church every Sunday and just because of it is an order... I wish I could worship my God with all my heart, both soul and physically...

Later on I had ignore this question that without answer... I had think back, and I found that, no matter what kind of motif I had, I will worship my Lord...

But now, I clearly know that Jesus Christ is the gift gave by God... we should be happy with it as the He said He is knocking the door, who will come to reply Him?... Everyone will recieve this gift as it is prepared for each and everyone of us... therefore we should be absolutely happy, enjoy the gift given from heaven...

I don't know about other, but I will not really find out why other is giving me a present... but, there must be a reason... well, I think is because those people think I should recieve it, so they gave me... is like something that I am worth for it...

Same thing... we human being is the best creation of God, He loves us as He gave us everything we need even His own and only Son... just because He want all of us be safe when the day of judgement come... just because, for Him, we are precious, we are worth for it...