From Andy Williams song The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
It's the most wonderful time of the year
With the kids jingle belling
And everyone telling you be of good cheer
It's the most wonderful time of the year
It's the hap-happiest season of all
With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings
When friends come to call
It's the hap-happiest season of all
There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago …
It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much mistltoeing
And hearts will be glowing
When loved ones are near
It's the most wonderful time
Yes the most wonderful time
Oh the most wonderful time
Of the year
Here we are are. The decorations are going up. The electricity in the air. It is thick, it is fun and it will be gone before you know it.
That is why I challenge us to slow down just a bit to answer the question “Who Is Jesus?” There are many answers. There are even many suggestions. One said, he is either a lair, a lunatic or He is Lord. You choose.
Maybe you don’t need that reminder, but most of us do. It is not that I don’t like Christmas. It is often that I dislike how so many celebrate it making it about the stuff and not the Savior. Really it is about Jesus and who He is. There is more to God than we might give Him credit for.
Isaiah 9:6 NASB
For a Child will be born to us, a Son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
Is Christmas just for the children? I mean the presents, the myth of a heroic figure doing the magical and spinning around the world spreading joy seems great, but there is more to this season than Santa. There is more to life than religion. It is about a Savior who wants to have a relationship with us.
Matthew 1:21 NIV
She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
Jesus came to earth, sent by the Father, to complete a special task, a given purpose and to do for us what we could not do for ourselves.
John 1:14 NASB
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
My prayer for this Christmas is that we will focus on Christ and the real meaning of this season, and every season. May we experience the glory of God that is seen in the Son of God!
Hebrews 1:3 NLT
The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command. When he had cleansed us from our sins, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven.
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