The Facts of Christmas
It's the Sunday before Christmas, but it really doesn't feel that way. It's been a crazy busy month like always, but the unusually warm weather makes it feel even less like Christmas to me. It's hard to listen to songs about a white Christmas while I'm wearing short sleeves.
But Christmas is more than a feeling of course. Christmas is a fact, the truth about the incarnation of Jesus Christ, God who has come to earth to be with us. Facts don't care about our feelings, they just are what they are. And the facts of Christmas are some of the greatest truths that mankind has ever known. The Word put on flesh and dwelld among us. He comes to spread the joy and eternal life as far as the curse is found.
You might not feel like celebrating Christmas this year for all sorts of reasons. Maybe it's the weather, or maybe it's that sorrow you're still holding onto, or that loneliness, or that disappointment at the way life has turned out. The good news is the facts of Christmas are true no matter how we feel. The truth of God is not dependent on our circumstances, but on the unchanging nature and character of God.
We are not gonna have a white Christmas this year, but that's OK, because Christmas Day is still worth celebrating. The circumstances of your life might not change, but the truth of Christ's birth, life, death, and resurrection are still true. No matter what has happened in your life over the past year, there is good news for us! In the city of David there has been born to us Savior who is Christ the Lord. Immanuel, God with us. Glory To God In The Highest!