Born To Die

Saturday was Pearl Harbor Day. Across the United States, December 7 is remembered as the day on which more than 2,400 Americans were willed, and many others injured, in a surprise attack by the Japanese on the Pearl Harbor Naval Station in Honolulu, Hawaii. No one at the Pearl Harbor Naval Station woke up that morning expecting to die, yet that's exactly what happened.


The attack on Pearl Harbor led to a US declaration of war against the Japanese and to America's entrance into World War II. The end result was that many more Americans lost their lives in service to their country. Like men and women before them, and all who have serviced in this nation's military since that time, they men and women who serve our country do so knowing that they may lose their lives as a result of their willingness to serve. Yet they serve anyway.


Christ came to earth knowing that He would lose His life. Yet He came willingly, to die for sin, once for all. He died to pay the price for all sin for all people for all tine.


He was born for that purpose. Born to die.


Christmas is a season when we remember Christ's birth. But we must never lose sight of why He was born. Born to die. For me. For you. For all people.

"He was born in the shadow of a tree.

Ever present was the knowledge he would be

hanging on a tree, the tree of Calvary."

- Christine Wyrtzen

"Christ died for sin, once for all...." (1 Peter 3:18  NASB)

adapted from "Are You Ready for Christmas" by Susan Feaster copyright 2016