christmas.
This season has been an interesting one for me. Usually I am so excited for Christmas, listening to Christmas music every day, doing Christmassy things, but this year has been different. I just keep thinking how ready I am for January, a fresh start, a new year. It’s just been a tough fall with so many things going on. But then I realized how ignorant it is of me. I mean, sure, I want to get thorugh the crazy traffic, the busy shopping, etc., but to rush through the celebration of the birth of our Savior is not something I want to do.
This week I took a few days off of my new Bible study to read all of the different accounts of the birth of Jesus and it really got me thinking. What did Mary feel when the Angel came to her and told her what was going down? How did Joseph respond when he found out Mary was pregnant, did he want to straight up leave her behind, and think the was a fool? I mean, seriously, when you think about it all, it’s pretty tripped up…but it’s how it happened, I am so thankful that God willingly sent his son to be birthed of a woman who had the faith to carry this child and raise him. Not only did He sent His son, He sent Jesus KNOWING that he was going to die, to be separated from Him. Now, I am not a parent, so I can’t really relate to what it would feel like to know you are sacrificing your child, but I can’t imagine that is an easy thing to do.
We are singing a song at our Christmas Eve service tonight called “Labour of Love” by Andrew Peterson and there is a line in the song that says “Noble Joseph by her side, calloused hands and weary eyes. There were no midwives to be found, on the streets of David’s town, in the middle of the night. So he held her and he prayed, shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, he was the maker of the moon, he was the author of the faith that can make the mountians move…” It really makes me think every time I sing this song about the miracle of Christmas. (Seriously though, can you imagine being Mary and carrying the Messiah in your womb…wow)
God, in the form of a baby, was born to this earth to redeem us, to save us…we who do not deserve saving….I just really can’t get over it.
So, although it’s been a tough season, I look forward to tonight and tomorrow, not the gifts or the secular things of Christmas, but to really focus on the reason we are celebrating…Jesus was born today!!
::cue 4Him Christmas “Jesus was born today! Born in a manger…:: (ahh….the good ole days)
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