This year as we celebrate Christmas, I’d like to paint a paint a picture for you of what Christmas is, as well as my love for it.
The most important thing is that of understanding what Christmas is. In the beginning, God created a perfect world inhabited by two perfect people—Adam and his wife. Tragically, however, these two perfect people made a choice to disobey their Creator, God.
Their Creator had mercy on them. Over the next thirty-five hundred years, God continued to make His power known among the people of the earth. But they continued to rebel against Him, and He fell silent for four hundred years.
Having heard prophesy of a coming Messiah, the people of Israel continued to pray as they lived in exile under the various great conquerors of the ancient world. They prayed for a Messiah who would drive out their oppressors and and lead them to victory over the Gentiles.
And during the dominion of the Roman Empire, their Messiah did indeed come. But He did not come as a conqueror. Instead, the son of God entered the world in the most natural and feeble of forms, as a baby.
That moment, when God took on human form and began to experience every possible sorrow and joy that man could ever know, is the meaning and the reason for celebrating Christmas.
Aside from this, Christmas is just a beautiful time of year. The music, the lights, the growing anticipation and excitement are almost too much to take in. I get a feeling of exhilaration as that first string of lights is hung, or when the first ornaments are placed ever so carefully on the tree. I become giddy as a child when the time comes for me to start hiding surprises. And when that first song is played or the first carol is sung, a little spark of joy explodes from within me:
Christmas is Here!
This year as you celebrate Christmas, I pray all of God’s blessings to be poured out over you. May your Christmastide be filled with joy, and may you know the love of Jesus, God With Us.
Merry Christmas,
Hayden Couvillon,
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