LWML — Lutheran Women in Mission

Pure Joy

“Joy to the world the Lord has come let earth receive her King!” During this Christmas season that is what we have received, the gift of the King of the universe. He who is King over all things has come to us as an infant born in usual fashion and laid in a manger. This King is here to get His hands dirty. Those hands will get dirty with the sin and yuck of our lives and He is doing so for us. And yes, we have great joy over the fact that Jesus has graciously come to do so! Not because our hands are clean. But precisely because our hands are not clean. Jesus is born to make us clean. He does so by getting dirty Himself in taking our sins into Himself and dying in our stead. We have great joy because God gets dirty for us.

There are numerous Lutheran Women in Mission Bible studies which will help you to understand this joyous dirty work of the Lord for us. Find them at lwml.org/bible-studies.

Rev. Mark J. Maas

Junior Pastoral Counselor
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League

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