By Banji Ayoola
That the Father sent His Son to this earth at all should evoke deepest gratitude, most grateful jubilation ever from mankind. For His Birth and Life on earth offered a golden opportunity borne out of the great Love of the Father to rescue, to salvage mankind and the earth from errors, from the dangerous path to the precipice, to misery and ruin, to destruction, towards which we were heading at an alarming speed.
It is a great opportunity to redeem mankind from our wrong paths, and rebuild the earth into a realm flourishing in harmony, happiness and peace, in bliss out of strict adherence to the Laws of His Father governing the entire Creation.
And joyful should be those human beings who wish truly to place themselves at His disposal as His helpers in the redemption of those who still wish to listen to His Word. So mankind should be joyful for His Birth. But our joy should be expressed differently from what we are used to.
The Birth of Jesus and the Purpose of His Birth are two things intertwined in purest Love; one leading to the other or making the other possible. But the most important part connected to His Birth is the Purpose of His Coming which we should hold most sacred, and to which we should channel and dedicate all our energies with utmost vigour and loyalty as His useful tools and helpers in His fulfillment.
Therefore we should not cling to the usual merrymaking over His Birth, to wining and dining, throwing lavish parties, exchanging gifts, greetings, making one another, or children placed in our care unusually happy or comfortable at this most solemn moment. Activities which act as blindfolds, as bandage, as diversions to lure us away from the Essence of the earthly Birth of the Saviour.
The most important aspect His earthly Birth is the Purpose, the Essence of His Coming! The Essence which is strongly connected with the Star of Bethlehem, the Radiant Star! And for which this especially significant Star heralded His Birth, accompanied Him and stood with Him throughout in the fulfillment of His Mission! As it was to do again in the times of the promised Comforter otherwise called the Spirit of Truth or the Holy Spirit.
The Radiant Star heralded the Birth of Divinity on earth in Jesus. It opened a cycle with Him. It shall also close this cycle in the Judgement when all inaccuracies in the transmissions shall be swept away.
The Birth of Jesus is a most solemn moment, the Silent Night! Holy Night! Night of Silence! Of Reverence! Of Worship! When the shepherds in the fields from whose spiritual eyes the bandage had been removed, to enable them relay this most special Event to mankind, automatically threw themselves down on their knees intuitively apprehensively in view of the beyond the ordinary momentous happening on earth!
When they threw their face down, afraid to look up at the mighty happening of the moment – the entrance into the earth of Divinity, of a Part of the Almighty Father! And the herald from On High the Radiant Star spoke reassuringly to them! “Be not afraid!”
When Divinity stepped into the earth; when everywhere stood still and silent as a Part of the Almighty Father entered the earth to fulfill the Mission of bringing His Word to liberate mankind and the earth from the clutches, the stranglehold of the Darkness!
This calls for a quiet, most serious and solemn moment of deep reflection, of soberness, for deep reverence, for worship!
This is the moment when a new volition should well up strongly within us to reverse ourselves from all our errors, all our wrong ways and henceforth readjust, realign ourselves with His Holy Word and follow It more purely and live strictly in accordance with It.
And thereby henceforth strive with our whole being honestly to adjust ourselves to the Holy Will of His Almighty Father here on earth and turning this earth into a realm flourishing in bliss as it is in Heaven! Into an extension of His Father’s Kingdom here on earth.
But not a moment for physical merrymaking!
