Tis the night before Christmas and I’ll soon be asleep, but
there are things to put down before I ask the Lord to keep. Just some random thoughts to share.
The Creator of the Universe, all-knowing and all-powerful,
chose to come down as a homeless, vulnerable baby, as far from the all-power as
one might imagine.
To demonstrate His great power, God used Caesar Augustus to
move the whole empire so that Mary and Joseph might travel from Nazareth to
Bethlehem, where the prophets foretold.
When the Wise Men saw Jesus’ Star rise in the East, was it the choir of angels ascending on high from their appearance to the
shepherds?
Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was the only person to be there
at his birth, his death, and his rebirth.
All the hype that has built up in the world of ‘secular’
Christmas cannot touch the appearance of that choir of angels.
The ‘pagan’ influences that have entered Christmas, i.e. the
tree, the mistletoe, the holly, whatever else, they are simply tribute to the greatest gift
we have ever received.
If you read Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, the author
rejoices in the birth story of Jesus as the backdrop for the redemption that
comes upon Scrooge-something that rarely translates into the screen adaptations.
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