As we enter the Christmas season, it’s good to be reminded how much
cost was expended when Jesus entered into the world.
I
received the following a couple of decades ago. The author is unknown.
It Cost
It
cost Mary and Joseph the comforts of home during a long period of exile in
Egypt to protect the little babe.
It
cost mothers, in and around Bethlehem, the massacre of their babies by the
cruel order of Herod.
It
cost the shepherds the complacency of their shepherds’ life, with the call to
the manger and to tell the good news.
It
cost the wise men a long journey and expensive gifts and changed lives.
It
cost the early Apostles and the early church persecution and sometimes death.
It
cost missionaries of Christ untold suffering and privation to spread the Good
News.
It
cost Christian martyrs in all ages their lives for Christ’s sake.
More
than all this, it cost God the Father His own Son—He sent Him to the earth to
save men.
It
cost Jesus a life of sacrifice and service, a death cruel and unmatched in
history.
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