A Lamb Is Born

by Jenny Wren

Only this perfected one. Only Jesus will suffice
This lamb's given for sin. The Supreme Sacrifice
 
This baby lamb of God. Jesus is Heaven's-Blessed
Sacrificial lamb - barn-kept, 'never' among the rest

Joseph holds his baby boy, a star is sending light
Joseph thinks of the miracle in Jesus born, tonight
 
This baby's secure among animals He's fast asleep
God's faultless sacrifice, lies in the old barn's keep
 
God sends His own son, to offer for created Man
He was the blood sacrifice, born to cover his sin
 
This is an acceptable gift, God's own begotten son
Lamb with no spot or blemish. He is the chosen one
 
There inside the manger, He sleeps upon sweet hay
Mary's now swaddled babe, in peaceful slumber lay
 
Shepherds and angels praising the new-born King
Tired Mary resting as, she now 'ponders' this thing
 
Gods' great gifts now alive, on His created Earth
Sent to save His mankind, through a savior's birth.
 
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Matthew 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea
In the days of Herod the king, behold, there came
Wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

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The word of God, with flesh wrapping around him, Jesus held God inside of himself who gave to Jesus the “words of God.” He did not speak of himself only what he heard from his father to say, remember? Jesus was the vessel of the Lord; God used Jesus body as his own. He healed, forgave ,stopped storms, resurrected the dead, and fed thousands form a little boy’s lunch through Jesus, Remember when he said “I speak nothing of myself - only what my father has spoken to you through me.” Isn't that beautiful? Jesus spent much time in the mountains, in prayer with God.

The Bible is read as a tiny child and can even be understood by the little child;
as a teen we understand it differently. It has grown as we start to grow in the Lord,
as young adults. We understand it still in a difference way. The book grows as we grow.
The book is alive, I tell you. It is the living word of God in our hands and inside of our hearts.
Even brand new again in me, this old granny. It opens up almost each and every verse and speaks to me entirely differently, in a stronger yet simple manner. Words I have read for 70 years and suddenly they are brand new with such deeper meaning. The Bible grows with each of us, a living guide book of directions as we grow into his “word”. Each age of learning suffices us. I just want you to realize when this starts happening to you.

(You have not lost your mind.) The Lord is just opening his Holy Word up to you; opening His word, isn't that beautiful? It is just aging in the Lord, and school is higher and you learn more and more. I know he finds new revelations in his own reading and learning and gets downright excited about them daily if he is any type of preacher at all. I have asked daughter Lou about some of the stuff and she simply says “Well, duh.” She had kept saying to me for years to seek the kingdom. One day it dawned on me that she said, “See, I told you before. Yes I know. “Seek ye first the kingdom, which is inside of you.”

Well, I for one was shocked that heaven starts here on this earth. Inside of me and you. But it does. It is inside of earthen vessels...us old clay jars. ..the potter’s products. Those allegories make such sense now. There will be a new heaven and new earth; no flesh and blood will ever inherit heaven. We will be in new bodies, remember. Compliments of our big brother, Jesus. He was the seed that was planted and grew more and more in us as we the self grew less and less.

We shall have glorified bodies. Remember Jesus saying, “I am a king, but my kingdom is not of this world.” He is our king. His children's king. And his temple is in our bodies, our souls. His holy spirit teaches us daily as we ask. He will lead us into all things and open them up to us. We will all be one in all and all in one and then stop and ask yourself if we had never had a Bible to help in guiding us through life. Just how advanced do you think “This board right here” would be?

I thank God for my upbringing and being taught from an old antique book, which grew older and sufficed as I grew, changing by itself like a miracle in each era of my life. It is amazing
and the same old book has survived me from kinder garden through high school. The lessons are invaluable. I praise God for the upbringing, I had I know you do too. I thank God for his living word; it is my manna, from God's storehouse.

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LORD I praise you for sharing with us your precious word. It has been manna to my soul here in my old age. It was sweet cookies when I was a little girl learning of you and it taught me how to accept this life you have given me, and as I aged the old book kept brand new in my heart. I praise you for the sweet experience of studying your holy word which you are teaching me. I thank you Lord.

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