Dr. Tom’sTEN WONDERS

OF CHRISTMAS

WONDER #1

How there was no room in the inn or anywhere else for this child or any child to be born just as I ponder how so many people today have no room in their heart for Jesus.

WONDER #2

How God chose to leave heaven—his omnipotence, his omnipresence, his omniscience—to live in a frail human body and be born in a feeding trough.

WONDER #3

How God chose to be born, live among, and teach the poor instead of the middle class and wealthy just as I understand why middle class and wealthy people today have no need of the Savior.

WONDER #4

How so many things about Jesus Christ were prophesied correctly in the Bible by different prophets.

WONDER #5

How the magi or wise men paid such attention to the star while most people missed it.

WONDER #6

How it must have felt to experience the heavenly host of angels singing the good news and how their praise seems to be similar to the worship we will be a part of someday in heaven.

WONDER #7

How Mary and Joseph must have felt at being the parents of the Son of God and how different Jesus must have been from other children.

WONDER #8

How children may have mocked Jesus as a “do gooder” just as we are sometimes made fun of when we do good.

WONDER #9

How the message of Christmas is so simple that so many people just don’t get it—including some Christians.

WONDER #10

How God so loved me that he gave his only begotten son so that if I believe in him I will never perish but will have eternal life.

But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.

Luke 2:19 (NKJV)

What are your personal ponderings of the Wonders of

Christmas?