Don't Ya Know That It's All About The Baby?
Sure we do! None of us will deny that in order for us to make the central theme Christ during the Christmas season, we must be intentional about how we go about our lives during the Holiday season.
Christmas time declares PEACE on EARTH! Good will toward men! But do we experience peace? Do we extend goodwill?
Our PEACE is dependent upon the Baby whose birth we are celebrating, yet in all the partying have we forgotten the great gift of peace that Jesus' blood afforded us the opportunity to have direct access to?
Romans 5:1-2
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Through him we have also obtained access
by faith into this grace in which we stand,
and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
PEACE-FAITH-GRACE-HOPE.... sounds like Christmas!
The gifts that we have received from God through Jesus are astounding but are we rejoicing?
God knew what we needed..... HIM! He is capable of fulfilling every longing of our sin sick soul and it doesn't just end on that one day when Christ was born. He is the gift that keeps on giving! He lavishes His great grace, mercy, love and affection on His undeserving children.... But wait! We are deserving because He made us deserving!
We were unfit for all that He is so He gave himself so that we could receive him and be in Him! The Creator submitted to the creation! That is radically wondrous news for us!
I don't ever want to get tired of Christmas, allowing the consumerism and secularization to have a bearing on my attitude during this wonderful season. We must intentionally focus on that baby!
Extraneous things cloud or hearts and our minds, some of which are good. Our heart's attitude should reflect that we are eagerly and expectantly awaiting the return of our King whose birth we celebrate on Christmas Day.
Colossians 1:15-16
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation.
For by him all things were created,
in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-
all were created through him and for him.
He came down for His creation! He is God with us! Jesus' birth is at the forefront of Paul's explanation of the preeminence of Christ. We were created for HIM! Let us not lose sight of the birth of the glorious Creator for our sake! We would be hopelessly lost without him and that is why when we allow the trappings of the Christmas season to cloud the monocle of our hearts, we must allow Him to breath on us and clear away the debris that gets in the way of us seeing Him clearly.
Abba, we come to you this cold wintery morning and ask that you scrape the frost off the surface of our hearts so that we can see the glory of the Christ Child and the significance that His birth has in our lives.
We were desperately wicked with no way out of our deadly predicament and You entered into our world so that You could rescue us from ourselves. What kind of God are you? You left Your glory behind and humbled yourself like no other in order to make a way for us to be reconciled to God!
We turn today from the anxiousness of the season and rest and rejoice in the peace we have with God, the faith we have in God, the hope we have in God, and the grace we have because of God! Help us to keep Christ as the central theme of our hearts during this season.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
- Stephen Covoy
Colossians 1:17-20
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
And he is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
that in everything he might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
and through him to reconcile to himself all things,
whether on earth or in heaven,
making peace by the blood of his cross.
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