“God so loved the world that He gave His son…” John 3:16I delight in the Risen One during this holiday season. Thinking about how the Creator of Heaven and Earth, took on flesh to walk among sinful people that He may teach them, heal them and call them back to Himself. A little over three years among mankind He spent and all this came together with the essence of His teaching, “You must die, so that you can live.” His death and resurrection being the example for us.As much as I am mesmerized by  His life on earth, I can’t help but get even more excited about a reality that is hidden from many, but hopfully not to you. John 1:14 says that “In Him we beheld the glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth.” And just as the Father sent Him, so He sends us (John 20:21). We are to be on this earth “the glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth.” For if we have been born again we have certainly been begotten. We have been born with a new spirit a new heart and a new desire.  I am often caught up thinking like an individual too much. Something that this meditation has helped me to realize is that corporately you and I who call upon Jesus as our Savior and Lord are a part of a unified will of God, the Bride, His Church, made from the blood and water that poured forth from His rib. Yes I am drawing a parallel to Eve, who was created out of the rib of Adam. We too, as the Church are His helpmate. Imagine how glorious it is that God of all Creation lives in Us His Church, as He works through us and earnestly seeks after His lost sheep, tossed and turned among the mountains and valleys of this sin-stained Satan-ruled world.  Through His message carried through our lives He is calling forth for Himself a pure and spotless bride from among every Tongue, Tribe and Nation.  Rejoice again that He has called you to join Him in the fellowship of His sufferings, that we might see the reward of His sufferings in the days ahead, when sin and death will be utterly destroyed upon His return. Let us speed His Kingdom. Pray earnestly for unreached peoples, Send missionaries with your finances and if God would so choose to honor you with such an assignment allow Him to utilize you as a Missionary among the unreached. What a joy we can find in those words. “God so loved that He gave…”