Miracle in Jerusalem

Miracle in Jerusalem
by Elisabeth Adams

This would have been the perfect Christmas post. The reason i'm posting it now is because I just came across the post, and its just such a lovely post. I can't help but fall in love with Jesus after reading it. Click on the link above for the full article.

I'm going to be copying the 2nd half part of the article here, the part that really touched me.

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Jesus kept Hanukkah. While studying the book of John recently, I learned that at this feast He told His listeners that He is the one whom God has dedicated. Dedicated for what? For God to live in. After all, Jesus' name is Emmanuel: "God with us." But for God to visit visibly was such a rare thing that almost everyone missed it. It wasn't a new thing for God to do, though. In fact, John spelled it out right at the beginning of his story about Jesus, saying "God came down and tabernacled among us." Tabernacled? When the children of Israel were on their big family camping trip in the wilderness, who came and pitched his tent next to them? God did. But who would have guessed that God could come so quietly? "How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given." I think of that while I am watching snow fall. It is so quiet that sometimes I almost feel as if I'm breathing that quietness in and out. But a lot can happen in that quiet: drifts form, dirt is covered by white, roads are blocked and great cities are brought to a standstill. Have you ever thought about how quiet light is? I did, while I was sitting there, watching my Hanukkah candle. If your eyes were closed, you'd never know it was there. John said, "The light came and the darkness didn't even know it was there." Didn't matter, did it? Light still pushes back the darkness: That's just part of light's nature. Jesus did the job. "It is finished," He said, and so it was, even though most of the world didn't even know He was there. In Israel, the Hanukkah dreidels are different. They say, "Nes gadol haya poh." "A great miracle happened here." Here, where the dimly burning wick of the Jewish nation was miraculously kept burning, here God came to be with us. Here the Light shone. Here our sins were covered once for all. All the indifference in the world cannot quench this lamp: the light is still shining. And already He is giving us eyes to see that light. Just as quietly as He came the first time, He comes to each of our hearts and knocks. "I want to be God — with you," He says. Pause. And calmly think of that. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Copyright 2007 Elisabeth Adams. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. This article was published on Boundless.org on December 20, 2007. Be blessed. Abba loves us. =)