“….and all who heard it were amazed”
Is Christmas still amazing to you? Not all the trappings and the family fun. Not the lights and sounds and food of the season, although all of these things continue to be amazing. But the historical reality of the incarnation. Jesus leaving his thrown in glory that He shared with the Father and the Sprit and coming to be found a human child. Carried in a womb for 9 months and born to a young woman and placed in a manger.
Does it still drop your jaw when you think about it?
Isn’t even more amazing that He did all of this knowing that what he would be asked to do is die on a cross? He knew going in what the rescue plan would require of Him, and yet he was willing. You might be tempted to think even briefly, “Yeah well he knew he would be resurrected”, but the reality is we have no conception of death. We have no way of understanding what the death of Jesus even meant in terms of the spiritual world. To even think such a thought is foolish and we should run quickly from such speculations. The scripture tells us that the prospect was so terrifying that Jesus asked His father three times to avoid it. This is the same Jesus that knew he would be resurrected.
We should never allow the miracle of Christmas to become ordinary. We should never let the trappings and wrappings distract us from the spectacular miracle and all that it meant.
We should never stop being amazed.
Have a blessed and merry Christmas.
Pastor Chris Henderson.
