Christmas is almost here, the snowflakes and reindeer are almost at the door and Santa has been slimming so he can fit down the chimney. The shops have ramped up their Christmas advertising, sales are in full swing and the carol services are well underway. Once the food for Christmas is finally organised the holidays are the next big thing on the horizon. Thus another Christmas and another year expires.
Rather than just allowing another year and another event to expire I wondered about the opportunity to inspire you to be thinking about Christmas and it’s most important focus - the birth of Jesus Christ into this world. The older I get and the more I see the world’s gradual decline and disintegration the more I wonder what God was thinking in sending Jesus Christ to this earth. Why didn’t he just let us expire as a human race into the abyss of nothingness? Why bother with a human race that is so bent on rebellion against His authority and loving rule over our lives?
If you knew what God knew, about us and our propensity to sin, what would you have done if you were God? I think I would have penned the final words of the last chapter, written ‘The End’ and then closed the Book. Remarkably God chose instead to keep the story of humanity going by writing another chapter and the chapter he wrote is by far the best in the Book. Most of the Book is written about us and that means a record of our failures and accompanying misery but this new chapter is written about Him and His Son Jesus.
What an unexpected twist to the story when angels appear, there are sheep and shepherds, wise men and an animals’ feeding trough – not to mention a weary pregnant woman and her faithful husband. This story is better than anything the creative genius Max Lucado could have thought of or written, J.R.R Tolkien couldn’t even come close with his stupendous writing gift nor could C.S Lewis, with all his brilliance, have conceived a storyline like this.
This is the story of a being so loving, so gracious, so eternally interested in His creation that He is prepared to sacrifice His Son and Himself as the Creator. The Creator lays down His life for His creation! No human being could ever have conceived such a plan, for this kind of sacrificial love is beyond our conception. Some might think that’s not quite true, surely some would lay down their lives for a loved one? True but Jesus gave His life for us while we were still sinners. That means we were His enemies, walking in opposition to His will, rebelling against His holiness and giving full flight to our sin nature.
Christmas is the opening story in the chapter that defines God’s finest hour. It begins with a baby and leads to a cruel cross that silences heaven and earth, and then to an empty tomb, the dramatic finale that opens the possibility of heaven for all. A new chapter and a new story begins. What inspiration! What encouragement, hope and love is induced from the chapter that begins with Christmas. Fat Santa’s and overflowing trolleys don’t even come close to this yet unfinished story….
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