Who Do You Think Story
WHO DO YOU THINK
(An adaptation from the song Who Do You Think by The New Coon Creek Girls and PTM Magazine)
Over two thousand years ago people were talking and rumors were running
Wild. There was a woman who was not married but she was going to have
A child. Her name was Mary and she was a virgin from down in Nazareth.
She was going to marry a man named Joseph but the baby’s father was
Someone else. The baby’s father was the Holy Ghost. Mary was young but she
was old enough to know that talk about an unmarried teenager giving birth would
not go away. It was a scandal that compromised religious values and morality.
Before long they were saying she had the baby in a barn in Bethlehem and a star
Moved ‘round in Heaven until it stopped right over Him. Then some shepherds
Said an angel came and told them about the birth. They always knew men
Went to Heaven but this time God had come to earth. The barn the baby
Was born in would have been dirty, smelly and un-sanitary at best but despite
All of the hardships Mary and Joseph faced, Jesus was born so we could leave
the spiritually polluted barnyards of our lives to be given spotless, unpolluted
and unsullied eternal rooms in God’s house. He came even though he knew he
would receive a rude reception all of his life and culminating with a torturous
death on the cross. He accepted the ridicule that the label of illegitimacy would
bring. He accepted the fact that his name would become a profane word. He
came so that we could be given a new birth , a new name, a new life and that we
would have the hope of an eternal future in God’s kingdom of Heaven. He came
so we could be reborn. Now who do you think could believe such a thing, believe
that this story is true? Who do you think do you think could believe such a thing
well here’s hoping to Heaven you do.
When you receive a Christmas card this year, stop and think back to that time and
What that card really means. It’s not the pretty tree or lights or the Norman
Rockwell painting of a perfect Christmas. It is not about holly or mistletoe or
Parties. It is not about singing carols or sleigh bells. It isn’t about snowmen
Reindeer or Santa Claus. The card represents the story of a child that came to
Give us the best present anyone could have, eternal life in Heaven. From
Humble beginnings came someone so great that He gave His life to save all
Mankind. Isn’t that what Christmas is really all about and not the pretty cards
You receive? So this year, as you celebrate Christmas and all that goes with it,
Take time and reflect about His birth and celebrate that also.