The next week the Leader met with the kids, and he read to them the third Christmas letter. The Leader reminded them of the introduction to last week’s letter:
Imagine Jesus wrote five letters to you just before Christmas to explain the meaning behind His coming to earth and being born as a baby. What would Jesus put in those letters? What would He say? How would He say it?
In this series we will attempt to create letters that Jesus might have written. At best this will be a feeble attempt to express the heart and feelings of our Savior, and it should be recognized as a very feeble attempt!
Dear People:
This is Jesus, how are you doing? In my last letter I wrote to you about the sadness I felt as sin came between me and humans. I still loved humans as much as ever, but my holiness cannot tolerate sin in any form, so the humans drifted further away from me. It is true that some people still wanted to love me and have a friendship with me, but their sin still got in the way.
Finally, it was the right time for my great plan to save humans to begin. I did an amazing thing! I became a human! I was still 100% God, but now I was also 100% human also. I know that your human mind cannot understand how this could be, but it is true! I came down onto earth to live with humans and to experience what life is like for humans. In a future letter I will tell you about the wonderful way that I entered the world, but in this letter, I will tell you what it was like to be God in a human body while living on this earth.
When I was a child, I experienced loneliness. I was different from everyone else; I did not have a sin nature (because I was God) and I never sinned. Can you imagine growing up and never doing anything wrong? My Mom and my Stepdad thought it was wonderful, but the other kids knew I was very different, and they were uncomfortable around me. So, I had many times of loneliness.
Another big difference between me and the other kids was how I looked at the people around me. The other kids made fun of people who were different or who were poor. I saw these people through the eyes of God, I saw their hurts and their longing to be accepted, and I looked at them with pity and wanted to help them. Most of all, I could see that all the people around me desperately needed to know God personally and be free from their burdens of sins, I was going to provide the way for them to have a relationship with God, but I had to grow up first.
When I was a young adult, I faced a devasting emotion! My earthly father, Joseph, died! All these emotions are a normal part of human life, and I experienced them. I took over as the head of our household, I ran the carpenter shop, supported the family and took care of my mother, brothers and sisters.
As I grew up, I experienced all the temptations that every young person faces, but I did not give in and sin. When I was 30 years old, it was time to start my time of ministering to humans. I left my mother in the care of my brothers and sisters and left home. Satan did not take long to attack with intense temptations! For 40 days I went head-to-head with Satan. I experienced intense hunger and the most intense temptations! I did not give in to Satan’s temptations, I would not sin!
As I began ministering to people, I experienced a lot of frustration. All the people needed God in their life so much, but they were so focused on the temporary things of earth. I loved all these people, but they had blind eyes and deaf ears when I tried to tell them the things about God. People are controlled so much by their sin nature, and they do not even realize it! They wanted to invent ways to try to get to God, and to try to impress God, but that is impossible! They cannot remove sin from their life.
I did many miracles. The whole purpose was to get people to look beyond this short life on earth and to think about eternity with God. I was here to make a way for people to have their sins forgiven and become adopted into God’s family, but they were more interested in this life. The religious leaders had invented all kinds of rules to try to gain favor with God, but none of these rules could erase their sins. The sad thing was that most of the people believed and followed the religious leaders.
There were also times of joy and happiness! The look in the eyes of a person who had been blind for their whole life when they can suddenly see for the first time! The joy of parents when I raised their child from the dead! The gratitude showed when I healed a person from leprosy! The human friendship that I had with my disciples!
I experience so many different emotions. Sometimes the people shouted my praise, and sometimes they got mad and left. I knew that human emotions cannot be trusted, emotions can change so fast; trust and friendship can be betrayed so easily.
I spent three years ministering to people, experiencing the highs and lows of human life. I observed human life and saw the effects of sin in every area of life. It was time to finish God’s plan to conquer sin and restore the relationship between God and humans!
That’s all for now. I will write more later.
I love you!
Jesus