Merry Christmas.
This morning at MGPC, among everything else, I threw these two thoughts out as part of the sermon.
Firstly, that while people may contend that the spirit of Christmas is about giving, the real heart of Christmas is about getting. The incarnation of God in the person of the Lord Jesus and his saving us is something God gives and we receive. For us, the true heart of Christmas is getting. We only give as an echo of God’s love.
Secondly, Christmas can be a very long list of things to be done, a list that can stretch all the way back to a year or months before. But there’s also that moment, where late on Christmas night you recline in your La-Z-Boy and relax and think ‘It’s all done, it’s over’, and relax in satisfaction. Christianity is not the long list of things to be done, a never-ending quest to get things perfect. It’s an ongoing experience of that moment of realising it’s all been done; and for the Christian it’s the realisation that God has done it all, not you.
So, Merry Christmas, and tonight, whenever that moment of complete rest and the feeling of ‘It’s all done’ strikes you, hang on to and savour the feeling as a reminder of the spiritual peace that is ours because of what Christ has accomplished for us.
And when you savour that feeling, give thanks to God.
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