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The wonderful events we celebrate at Christmas, we also celebrate every week at this table.\u00a0 That Jesus, although almighty God, came in human form as a helpless babe to live amongst us.\u00a0 And on the cross, he took upon himself the death that was the penalty for our sin, to win our forgiveness, as a free and undeserved gift, simply through faith in Him.<\/p>\n
It’s sad that some people reject this good news as contrary to human logic, but an example from geometry may help.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Most of you will remember learning in high school about parallel lines.\u00a0\u00a0In Euclidean geometry these are lines, like the rows of mortar between the bricks in a wall, that continue in the same direction and stay the same distance apart forever, they never meet and never end.\u00a0\u00a0Using our knowledge about these imaginary lines, we were sent out of the class to measure the height of the taller school buildings.\u00a0 We were so proud of that, we thought nothing was beyond us.\u00a0 Unfortunately, those lines are the way we have been taught to think about both space and time.<\/p>\n
Six years later I studied a topic called \u2018The New Geometries\u2019.\u00a0 That was 50 years ago, it\u2019s no longer so new, and it\u2019s now called Elliptical geometry.\u00a0\u00a0It looks at what happens if we assume those parallel lines all meet at a point so distant it can\u2019t be measured, called infinity, and include that point of infinity in the same working space as our parallel lines.<\/p>\n
Human eyes cannot picture things on this scale, and when you draw them all together on the same page it doesn\u2019t look right.\u00a0\u00a0But by accepting that our limited human vision doesn\u2019t work on the large scale, we were able to solve problems that were impossible using our old high school geometry.\u00a0 And this new geometry is far more realistic; it\u2019s used in the GPS navigation in your car and on your mobile phone, so we rely on it.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s exactly like the choice we face in Jesus; whether we are willing to not rely on our limited human vision, but accept through faith that our infinitely great God has come as Jesus into the small page of our lives, and that relying on all he has revealed and done for us is the only realistic solution to life\u2019s fundamental problems.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Trusting in Jesus changes everything.<\/p>\n
As he said in Revelation 21:6 \u201cI am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.\u00a0\u00a0To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0Jesus invites you to this meal, all you need is a willingness to accept his infinitely great presence into the very small page of your life.<\/p>\n
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