"....MY EYES HAVE SEEN....."

"For my eyes have seen Your Salvation."  (Luke 2:30)

This is also a part of The Christmas Story, just eight days after the angels could have said, "....my eyes have seen Your Salvation."  The reason is that the shepherds and Simeon beheld the same Person, a Baby, Mary's Boy, "the carpenter's Son," and yes, "The Word of God," Who, "became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory...."

It is not the "plan of salvation."  It is The Person of Salvation.  Salvation is a beholding of the Babe in the manger, a beholding of the Eight Year Old in the Temple, and years later, John the Baptist would say, "Behold the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world."

"Where meek souls will receive Him still, the Dear Christ enters in."

Father, in Jesus' Name, thank You that You "enter[ed] in."  Amen. 

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2