December 22, that you may believe.

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book,

but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,

and that by believing, you may have life in His name, John 20, 30 to 31.

I feel so strongly that among those of us who have grown up in the church and who can recite

the great doctrines of our faith in our sleep, and yet who can yawn through the apostles' creed,

that among us something must be done to help us once more feel the awe, the fear, the astonishment,

the wonder of the Son of God be gotten by the Father from all eternity, reflecting all the

glory of God, being the very image of His person, through whom all things were created,

upholding the universe by the word of His power. You can read every fairy tale that was ever written,

every mystery thriller, every ghost story, and you will never find anything so shocking,

so strange, so weird, and spellbinding as the story of the incarnation of the Son of God.

How dead we are, how callous and unfeeling to your glory and your story of God. How often have I

had to repent and say, God, I am sorry that the stories men have made up stir my emotions,

my awe and wonder and admiration and joy more than your own true story.

Perhaps the galactic movie thrillers of our day can do at least this good for us.

They can humble us and bring us to repentance by showing us that we really are capable of some

of the wonder and awe and amazement that we so seldom feel when we contemplate the eternal God,

and the cosmic glory of Christ and a real living contact between them and us in Jesus of Nazareth.

When Jesus said, for this purpose, I have come into the world.

He said something as crazy and weird and strange and eerie as any statement in any science fiction

that you have ever read. Oh, how I pray for a breaking forth of the Spirit of God upon me and upon you,

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