Where Does Christmas Find You?

 

Where Does Christmas Find you?

By John W. Vander Velden

        Each of us move about our lives. We face challenges and obstacles. We have achieved successes and found unexpected blessings. We have dealt with failures and loss. We might be among those we love most or find ourselves staring at empty furniture. Three hundred and sixty-five days of living each year, how do we face one set apart from the others the way Christmas is?

Too many focus on what cannot be, unable to see the grandness of each day. Yet Christmas comes to us all, those ready for the tinsel and lights and those that are not. But Christmas is grander than holiday specials, perfectly cooked meals, stockings, and ho-ho-hos. It is more than the lights on trees inside and out, or glowing inflated snowmen. Christmas is not limited to December 25^th.

Christmas is the firm proof of GOD, and the binding HE has with each of us. For on that night long ago CHRIST was born, Emanuel, GOD with us, born for you and me. CHRIST is the proof, the solid definition of love and shows us just how far GOD is willing to go on our behalf. Christmas comes each year to remind us of that infinite love. That love is not fixed to a particular date. That love isn’t fastened to a holiday. GOD’s love is broader...it is bolder.

Christmas comes to find you where you are even when you are most vulnerable...or at your weakest. Christmas comes to find you where you are especially those times you feel broken...shattered...beaten down. Christmas comes when everything seems to be going wonderfully, but it also arrives when your world seems to unravel.

Christmas finds you no matter where you are in your life.

For GOD so loved the world...that means you...that means me...that means your neighbor...that means the stranger on the street...that means the one that wishes to be your enemy...GOD loves us all.

That he sent HIS SON...that is a child born under the humblest of circumstances to ordinary people that act in extraordinary ways. Jesus was born in Bethlehem...the angels proclaimed HIS birth to humble herdsmen of the field. Common folk of sweat and toil. Later grand men of wisdom came following heavenly signs. From the poor to the wealthy all are welcome to meet the CHRIST.

That whoever believes in HIM...recognizes that JESUS is, was, and always will be, the SON of the MOST HIGH...GOD in human form...

Shall have everlasting life...Jesus saves...can save...will save. Life everlasting is not some “pie in the sky” someday thing...for those that truly believe, it has already begun...and will never end...

Is your heart open to Christmas when it comes? Will you recognize the grandness of GOD’s love for you?

So I ask...where does Christmas find you?

 

 

12-24-2020 (465 Words)