Dr. Lukes prescription

The day is Christmas and the best diagnosis of the true meaning was given by a doctor over 1900 years ago, it simply cannot be improved upon.

The doctor is Luke, and the diagnosis is found in the second chapter of his inspired “prescription”.

Which is known to us as the Gospel according to St. Luke.

In the 11th verse, we have the core of the message…..”For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”

Note how clear, how sharp is the doctors diagnosis!

“Unto you”……that is personal

“This day”…….that is present

“A Savior”…….that is precious

You know of course, that there is all the difference in the world between Christmas and Christ.

Millions make a holiday over the former and only a mockery over the latter.

Christ is cruelly crowded out of that special day which is meant to remember Him the most.

Holiness is hidden between the pile of holly.

The wreath is hung higher than the cross.

And worst of all, the Savior is asked to move aside and make room for Santa Claus.

And yet, without Christ there is really no Christmas.

Without Him there is nothing to sing about or to rejoice over.

Outward merriment all too quickly becomes inward mockery to a spiritually starved soul.

It is time to turn back to that perfect prescription of the old doctor.

Lets examine again his good words and their meanings.

“Unto you” This is a personal message and there can be no evasion or denial.
What have you done with the Lord Jesus Christ for this occasion?
You have remembered family, friends, and organizations with gifts.
What have you given Him?

“This day”…. Yes, this very moment!
Thoughts of Christmas fill the air and there is at least the passing acknowledgment of His Person.
But do you know that the thoughts of Christ concerning you are the precious “Calvary thoughts” of giving you the greatest of all gifts--the gift of grace which is eternal life; the gift of your souls salvation?
This day, yes this very moment should be the greatest moment of your life.

What will you do with Christ at this Christmas?

Or rather, what should you do with Him?

The only correct answer is for you to receive Him in your heart by faith.

“A Savior”…. Yes, that is the power of the prescription.

The road from Christmas to Calvary is really a short one, for this Babe of Bethlehem came for one reason only, to be the Sin-bearer upon Calvary’s cruel cross.

Not as “Santa” but as Savior; not “Claus” but Christ.

And it is only the man or woman, who has truly been to Calvary, whose sinful heart has been broken at the foot of the Cross, whose life has been cleansed and transformed, who can really and truly know the blessed joy of a “heavenly Christmas” within the heart.

“Unto you, this day, is born a Savior,”…how truly precious are those words when the heart is opened up to receive them.

The old doctor supplied the best diagnosis for a dirty soul, and in his prescription tells us of the cure for sin and sorrow.

How happy are those who have received the gift of heavenly healing and of the new birth (John 3), becoming a new creature in Christ ( 2 Corinthians 5:17).

How is it with you this Christmas season?

Have you received the gift that God sent by special delivery or are you still passing by searching for the gifts of the world and its obsessions?

We invite you to visit the manger for the first time or to revisit the One who came as a helpless babe and made a very short walk to a hill where the gift was presented in the form of our sin upon a tree.