The baby in the manger came because the world was (and still is) groaning, waiting for its final redemption.
For further study: 1 Corinthians 11:23 - 26
For parents and children: Ask your children what it means to be hungry and how they know that they are hungry. Ask them what their favorite food is or what their favorite Christmas food is. Then help them to understand that we all experience two types of hunger: physical hunger and spiritual hunger. Help them to understand that not only do our bellies get hungry, but our hearts are hungry as well. Just as our bellies groan when they are empty, our hearts groan when they are empty, our hearts groan to be filled too. Then help them see that Jesus was born to be the only spiritual food that would ever satisfy the hunger of our hearts. Tell them that the Christmas story is about the coming of the Bread of Life so that our hearts would be hungry no more.
"The birth of Jesus is an invitation to the best, most satisfying dinner ever."
"Jesus, in his life and death, paid the price that we could never afford to pay so that we could sit at the banquet table of his grace and finally be satisfied."
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