Life is...Christmas Sucks
(I actually wrote this a few years ago, but felt 2020 was a good year to post it).
Christmas - What a wonderful, magical time as a child. What a difficult, stressful, sad time as an adult.
As I sit here on Christmas night pondering what a difficult Christmas season it has been & I realize...
We idolize Christmas (the nativity & Jesus' birth) but it must have been awful giving birth in a stable. And later having to flee to Egypt to avoid being killed.
What was it like the 1st Christmas?
"and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them." ~Luke 2:7
but what were Mary and Joseph thinking?
"But Mary treasured up these things and pondered them in her heart." ~Luke 2:19
Maybe they were thinking...
-Is this really how God wanted His son to be born?
-Is this really the plan?
-I don't want to have a baby here!
But yet, under these circumstances, of a baby being born next to animals, the Salvation of the World came.
Don't let this small, well-known verse pass you by.
It is like God is telling us, even from the birth of His Son...
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." ~John 16:33
If the things that aren't really Christmas start to interrupt your Joy of the birth of the Savior - let them pass by. For Jesus came into the harsh world as a defenseless baby - born into extreme circumstances to be The Light of the World!!!!!
So, even though the Christmas season is hard - all of us have our own story and difficulties - when you start to think "Christmas Sucks!" Remember that in fact
CHRISTMAS SAVES!!!!
For it was on Christmas that the Child was born into the world - the Child that would redeem all mankind.
