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Picture of Children singing Christmas carols, specifically
Silent Night.
Nothing makes the holiday season brighter than the traditional
Christian music that celebrates the story of Jesus' birth.
Songs that tell of Bethlehem and the manger scene. of shepherds
guarding their flocks by night, and of the infant Jesus help
adults as well as children to recall the reason for the season.
Christian celebrate Jesus Christ in every season. And
Christmas is the best time of all to express God's love every
way we can to a world in great need of a reason to hope.
Darkness marks this time of the year in the northern hemisphere,
as nights become longer than daylight. Cold temperatures
come, and so do the blues, as people's bodies and minds respond
to the lack of sunlight. Often, families experience the
most difficult financial struggles in the winter season.
And children long for acceptance in both family and community.
Jesus Christ is the one true light that is in this world.
The church itself may fail to be the light and help that it
should be, as believers get tangled up in the affairs of daily
living, and the struggle to make ends meet. But God never
drifts away from us. The Lord Jesus is always near to
every human soul that calls upon Him. He never turns
anyone away. He never pushes us back out into the cold.
God's love and great power is never more wonderfully told than
in the message of Jesus Christ and His entrance into this world
to bring everlasting life and perfect light. Jesus came
into the world to give us all that Satan conned us out of in the
very beginning. And Jesus will not stop until all the
darkness is forever gone. He has already conquered the
powers of evil when He willingly died on the cross for our sins.
He defeated death and the grave when He took up His body again
and walked out of the tomb — not as the walking dead, but as the
King of eternal Glory.
Whoever knows Jesus Christ has life. Whoever does not yet
know Him is still in darkness, and that darkness is filled with
despair and many sorrows. The sorrows do not come from the
circumstances of life, although life can truly be horrific in
its difficulties. The dark longing of human hearts is
caused by their separation from the living God. Jesus
heals the broken bond. Jesus makes us complete in God.
He gives us eternal life, and the very Spirit of God comes to
live within us.
I love Christmas because I love to sing and talk of how God's
love shattered the rule of darkness in this world. We now
have a firm hope in Christ that all the remaining promises of
God will also be fulfilled in Christ. All the powers of
darkness will eventually be removed forever to a place prepared
just for them. And all the people who trust in the Lord
will have a new heavens and a new earth, with Christ as our
everlasting King. He is the eternal Son of God who holds
all things in His hand. And He holds my life, your life,
and the lives of all those we pray for and care for in His
mighty power.
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