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Consider the Christmas Family in Today’s world

Posted on: December 13, 2006

By Barbara Orr

It occurs to me that as this wonderful time of the year approaches we live in the most faithless times known to man. If the Christmas story were to happen in our time, I propose the following could happen:

First, Mary, being an unwed mother, with no privacy in the public school system could possibly be talked into an abortion, after all she could have other children at a more suitable and profitable time in her life. If she had “chosen” to give the Christ Child life, Joseph would have no doubt been delayed and obstructed from
his intent to marry her, because state mandated mental counseling would have been required due to his strange claims to dreams revealing that the child was the Son of God.

When they were required to travel to Bethlehem (realize He was born in a stable because of a tax law) police surveillance and well meaning social workers would probably have required Mary and Joseph to appear in court for a custody hearing because the child was born in a stable. Rank child abuse when there was a state of the art hospital in Bethlehem. Joseph being a middle class independent business person, would not be able to afford medical insurance or treatment, being citizens, they would not have been given the free care available to illegal aliens and there would have been no room at the hospital without proof of insurance.

The Kings would not have come, because in these times, those in power and authority perpetually deny the reality there is anyone greater than themselves, much less take the time and trouble to go see Him. Any conscience promptings in that direction could be
easily overcome by the latest fashionable widely advertised drug. The shepherds, steeped in the soap operas, movie magazines, and grocery store tabloids of the simple, would certainly have thought the angel was a UFO.

The local media, rather than announcing the Birth of the King to Bethlehem, as the Shepherds did, would begin an investigation of Mary’s questionable character. The event would have been broadcast live over the area media and internationally over the internet as a sensational story of child abuse.

The Child would have been without resources, the trip into Egypt, if Joseph had believed a second dream, would have been much more difficult, if not impossible.

Herod would have known about the Child through government channels, so efforts to scar and destroy His life (in the name of protecting Him, could have started immediately. Death of the innocent would not have been necessary, at least not right away.

The whole idea, that His life and blood, not our works, being the only atonement for sin, is mocked these days because people have been taught rationalization instead of repentance by people who like Herod worship only themselves.

Each day we live is a day in God’s beautiful story to us.

Like a gigantic game of hide and seek, the Lord’s sovereign power is displayed every day for those who have the hearts and eyes to see His Kingdom coming. The work of The Lord, then and now, is only this, to believe on the One, He has sent. Watch, Pray and Rejoice Christian, because our Lord Jesus is King of Kings, not because of, but in spite of, the world.

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