You and I are the reason for the season!

During this time of year we see signs everywhere stating, "Jesus is the reason for the season." But the truth is YOU are the reason.  I am the reason.  

Jesus was born to die.  For you.  For me.  

In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve chose to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, thereby disobeying the ONE thing God told them not to do.  He had warned them that if they did eat from that tree there would be consequences, "In that day you shall surely die."  They had a unique relationship with their Creator.  They had intimate fellowship with Him.  Each day He would walk with them in the garden He had placed them in.  They had been formed by His very hands from the dust of the earth.  His very breath had been breathed into man and he became a living soul.  He created them from His very image.  He was intimately acquainted with all of their ways.  

Can you imagine how delighted He must have been to watch these two He so deeply loved, created in His image, His very breath within them, formed by His own hands?  Watching them explore and tend to the garden and the animals.  Watching  them get to know each other.  Enjoying their company each day.  He was walking, talking, teaching, loving and tending to them.  

And yet, He knew what was coming.  God is always, all knowing.  He is also always all prepared.

"In that day, you shall surely die."  Genesis 2:7

The very first act of independence from their loving Creator was when Eve saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. Adam willingly chose his relationship with Eve over God's when he took that fruit from her.   (Genesis 3:6)

"Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked"- Genesis 3:7

Naked.  Before their disobedience they were naked and unshamed (Genesis 2:25) now they are so naked and ashamed they decided to go and sew fig leaves to cover their nakedness.  But the truth is nothing they could EVER do would cover their nakedness.  Nothing they could ever do would remove the shame.  They had disobeyed their loving Creator.  Now, there would be consequences.  That day.  

Their eyes were opened.  Can you imagine the feeling of loss inside of them?  Just moments before their spirits within them had been alive and joined to God's.  Now their spirit was dead and they were no longer intimately united with Him.  Separated.  Lost.  Empty.  Incomplete.  Deceived.  Independent.  Sinner!  Sinner!  Sinner!  Condemned!  Unholy!  Unrighteous!  

"Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned" Romans 5:12

"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23

Through one act of disobedience- all separated from God.  
Through one act of obedience- all can be united to God, if we choose.- Romans 5

Jesus provided the act of obedience.  Death on the cross as payment for the penalty for sin.  God raised Him from the death.  Now, whoever believes in Him receives eternal life, His very life.  For we have much more than even Adam and Eve.  Adam and Eve were joined in their spirits to God before they sinned but He didn't live within them.  Throught Jesus death, burial, resurrection- He lives in us- Romans 6.  United!  Found!  Filled!  Complete!   Free!  Holy!  Righteous! 

You see- YOU are the reason He was born.  YOU are the reason He died.  YOU are the reason God rose Him from the dead.

YOU are the reason for the "season".  YOU are.