A Merry Christmas To You

Today, we celebrate so many things. Hopefully you and your family are not only together, but also enjoying one another. Hopefully your belly is full of good food and your feet are warm by a fire…or at least warm if you’re like us and it’s 70 degrees outside. Hopefully you’ve been blessed in countless ways. What I really hope, though, this Christmas Day, is that you know the reason why this holiday even exists. I hope you know WHO we are celebrating and that He means something to you. Actually, not just something but that He means everything to you. For today we stop and we celebrate the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. He was born in a manger and came humbly, living a life pure and free of sin. His life was solely purposed in His death so that He might redeem a people who had forsaken Him in their own rebellion. His death was made sweet in His resurrection as it paid for all of our our disobedience to God, freeing us from the weight of our own deaths. Now, we anxiously await the day that He will come again and put an end to suffering. So, today, we celebrate the incredible gift that God has given…the entrance of Jesus Christ into a broken world who was and is desperate for Him. Today, I am reminded of this great gift and it leads me to rejoicing. I hope it does the same for you.

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder,and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.” Isaiah 9:6-7

With this hope, I celebrate today.

Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season! Praying that if you do not know this hope, that you would begin to seek it out.

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