The twelve days of Christmas have come and gone and the Silent Night’s phrase “Christ the savior is born” still rings in my head. Waiting for a savior was in the minds and hearts of the chosen people. It was in the prophecies of gentile cultures as well.

Most people in those days worked hard and didn’t have much. Yet they lived for the day a savior would come to them. When I look at my world today, the need for a savior is just as relevant. Just as in Jesus’ time, people today want a warrior, someone to stomp on their enemies.

You would think after 2000 years, Jesus’ message would have more impact-saving starts within the soul. The media reflects people wanting to be saved from conflict, bigotry, poverty and irrelevance. Rarely would anyone admit that they need to be saved from themselves. If you took a poll on the street and asked people if they needed to be saved, how many would say yes? How many would say Jesus is the one to do it?

Yet he came to grace us with eternal life. He graces us with conflict resolution within ourselves with his mercy and forgiveness. His grace places us first as children of God, princes and princesses no matter who we are or where we live. He saves us from poverty of our spirit gifting us grace upon grace. No longer are we irrelevant when we are the apple of God’s eye.

In this new year I admit that I need a Savior. Jesus is holding out his hand to do it