A COVID Christmas
Most would agree we need to put more “Thanks” in Thanksgiving, but we also need to put Christ back in Christmas. Somehow along the way, he has become less with all the fuss that has replaced a simple faith. When people sing, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” they are not talking about Jesus. From snowflakes, to chestnuts roasting, party guests toasting, Face-bookers posting and brag-letter writers boasting, let’s face it, Jesus is often hard to find amidst the bows, ribbons and mounds of wrapping paper. The real Christmas Star is missing from his own birthday party. COVID-19 turned Christmas 2020 into Christmas-lite, perhaps affording a greater 2020 insight. The Nativity of our Lord, the incarnation of God in the flesh, the Creator of the universe becoming a babe laying in a manger is the most significant event in human history. And it is more important that he fill our hearts. Our modern Christmas is so heaped with hype it is hard to see the hope. Jesus came to save the world and save every humble heart that welcomes him as Savior and King. Perhaps a Christmas without all the mess which somehow attempts to make Jesus less will give us more and remind us what Christ came for, and in hindsight, 2020 will give us a Christmas to remember. -id
Come let us Adore Him
Scripture is silent and does not say
How many Wise Men bowed that day,
but it seems to me that there were three,
as three gifts were given ‘though grace is free.
One came with Gold, another with Myrrh,
and Frankincense did one prefer;
each is a symbol and for us is a token
of what the Word of God had spoken.
Gold, is a gift that befits a King,
and Frankincense for worshiping.
Myrrh was for suffering and for pain
speaks of the Cross, and why Jesus came.
Perhaps came three wise men, maybe more
Come join the wise men, worship and adore. -id
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