“Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go;
Take a look in the five and then, glistening once again with candy canes and
silver lanes aglow.” When I hear the
words of that song, I always think of my mother because that was one of her favorite
Christmas songs. With the Chrismon tree
we see in our church sanctuary… the Christmas tree in our homes… and the lights
reflecting from homes and along streets, it is looking like Christmas. There is a message in the sights of
Christmas, and that message is Christmas shows. As a pregnant Mary made her way to
Bethlehem, Christmas was showing through the child held in her womb.
The gospel of John, like the gospel of Mark, does not give us any details about the birth of Jesus. The closest that John comes to telling us about the birth of Jesus is in John 1:14 when he tells us, “14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,[d] who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” In his own way, John was saying that Christmas shows in the fact that God came to us in the flesh. My hope and prayer for all of us that follow Jesus is that we will let Christmas show not just through the decorations we have in our homes on in the clothes we wear, but that we will let Christmas show by letting his love be seen in and through us. Have a joy-filled week.- Pastor Randy Wall
PRAYER
Holy Lord, thank you for the gift of Christ Jesus, the Word made flesh. Help me to let Christ so fully live in my heart that he might be seen in all that I say and do; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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