This Christmas has been something so different to me- one where I am really trying to see beyond all the decorations and cookies to the true miracle that happened over 2000 years ago. The more I invite God into my heart- the more I see the pain and feel the pain of our world... the suffering all around us because sin has distorted this world so far away from the way God created it to be.
I have seen things that we laugh at nowadays- that our culture and civilization joke about and try to achieve- that pain God so greatly. Society tells us we have to own certain things to fit in, have a certain body to be desirable, to find our identity in skills…give our bodies away…. the list goes on... and seeking these things outside of God leads to is pain and brokenness. We can't do this on our own. And as I sat there in tears for the things we give our hearts to I selfishly thought-
Why would I even want to have kids that will be raised in this?
They will be bombarded with all these evil messages and suffer through so much pain?! And it dawned on me that having a child in the midst of this brokenness is EXACTLY what God did- He sees all the brokenness and is even more greatly troubled than I am and yet He sent His son to us and THAT is why we are celebrating. That God sent that hope down to us that there is a better way- an answer to long awaited prayers and cries- that is exactly what He did so that we would see the right way and have a way to the Father because we cannot do it on our own.
I write this having just come in from looking at the Lunar Eclipse. It was really cool- and as I looked up it flooded me- this miracle that a billion people are looking up at along the eastern coast of the United States… God did that for us today! And over 2000 years ago He did another miracle in the skies that led a group of royal travelers to a great and mighty king in the form of a child! WOW! What a Christmas...
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