At Christmas the world changed. At Christmas God became man. At Christmas God so loved the world that He gave His son. Christmas is, after all, a love story.
If Christmas is true, then your king and mine was born in a stable. If Christmas is true, then Jesus is the center of everything. If Christmas is true, then the only appropriate response is to bow and worship.
But this world doesn’t want to bow and worship, so it ignores the central fact of Christmas and celebrates instead its own christmas.
You and I are then left with Christmas or christmas. Both holidays are present simultaneously. Everywhere you look you see christmas, for it shouts and presses itself forward with a marketing campaign any corporation would envy.
But Christmas is quiet, like a starry night outside Bethlehem. Christmas stills your soul. Christmas points you beyond christmas. Christmas opens your heart to the love of God. Christmas is far more wondrous than the marketing campaign, for Christmas reveals the astounding humility and grace of God.
The holiday of christmas changes the season by plastering on thick makeup. But Christmas changes the heart . . . forever.
Have a Merry Christmas.
