There is a person in the news who has been accused of expecting others to pay him in order for a position to be filled in the Senate of the United States. This is clearly illegal.

This is not how God gives His favors to anyone. We do not “˜buy”™ God”™s favor. We can, however, receive His favor by receiving the Son of God into our lives. This is “˜good news of great joy”™. Jesus came to deliver you and me from our sins and from the death that separates us from God.

(NASB) Luke 2:13 “And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,””¦

The “suddenly” that followed the greatest message the world has ever received were the host of angels who were praising God. What a sight to have seen, what a sound to have heard. One day when we are in heaven, we too will see and hear God being praised by the heavenly host.

Why is this such an important reference to the night that the Son of God was born?

God had become Man that you and I can enter into the presence of the living God. (This has never happened before and will never happen again.)

This is indeed Good News of Great Joy!
The heavenly choir of angels praised God ~ giving glory to God as they declared “on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests.” (See (NIV) Luke 2:14)

How does anyone “˜find favor with God”™?

From experience each person can know that even after receiving Christ as personal Savior, we sin. Even after confessing all known sin and determining never to sin like that again”¦still we sin.

Since we still sin, how can anyone find “˜favor with God”™? How can anyone have that peace that passes all comprehension? It is through that baby who was born and laid in a manger that night 2100 plus years ago. It is only through the Lord Jesus Christ that anyone can have favor with God.

To have the “˜favor of God”™, we need Jesus!

Have you received the “˜favor of God”™? If so, are you also giving glory to God and praising Him, thanking Him throughout your day for such “˜favor”™?