Christmas Greetings from President Bill Clinton
In this final message in my series on Christmas messages from presidents, I would like to share the 1995 message of President Bill Clinton:
The Christmas story is dear and familiar to us all—shepherds and angels, Wise Men and King Herod, Mary and Joseph, and, at the heart of it all, a Child. This Child was born into poverty in a city too crowded to offer Him shelter. He was sent to a region whose people had endured suffering, tyranny, and exile. And yet this Child brought with Him riches so great that they continue to sustain the human spirit two thousand years later: the assurance of God’s love and presence in our lives and the promise of salvation.
President Bill Clinton
Artist David Roberts drew this picture of Bethlehem on April 6, 1839. He published it in his book The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia with the subtitle, From Drawings Made on the Spot.
Today may we be assured of God’s love and presence in our lives and the promise of salvation.
But God, being rich in mercy,
because of His great love with which He loved us,
even when we were dead in our transgressions,
made us alive together with Christ
(by grace you have been saved),
and raised us up with Him,
and seated us with Him
in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
so that in the ages to come
He might show the surpassing riches of His grace
in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:4-7