Press the arrow to listen to my favourite Christmas carol, “The Holly and the Ivy” by the choir at Winchester Cathedral as you read today’s devotion.

Scripture
This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. 1 John 5:6

Observation

The life of Jesus is bookended between twin miracles. On one end is Christmas and the other is Easter.

Christmas is the miracle of water, in this case that the eternal God became human and entered the world through the waters of a mother’s womb.

Easter is the miracle of blood, that the eternal God entered the miracle of the resurrection through the veil of blood shed on the cross.

This is Jesus Christ, a life unlike any other.

The life of Jesus Christ is in me and my life is sandwiched with his miraculous life. I live between the uneplained and the unexpected. The unexplained has happened, because I have experienced new birth through his life. The unexpected is ahead because my resurrection is yet to come. I live squeezed between the bookends of Jesus’ miraculous life.

Application
My life is an unpredictable life because Christ is my beginning and my  end. The best is yet to come.

Prayer
Father, today I choose to live with expectation because my life is caught in the middle of Jesus’ life. Jesus is victor. Amen.