Last evening we had our Ranger/M-Pact christmas party and it was pretty cool. As is usual, Julia and Brian open the service in the main hall and we sang some Christmas songs. While Veggie tales is cool I still prefer Third Day! One of the songs we sang was "Away in a manger" and as it played, I got to thinking about just how rough of a scene it really must have been.
Think about it for a minute. All of the roughness of a dark, dank barn and all the lovely aroma's afforded in such a place, just what was the KING of GLORY thinking? Why leave the beauty of eternities shore and the throne of your Father to come to Earth a helpless child who could not even feed yourself? I was listening to part four of Scott Wilson's Christmas series yesterday and the U2 song he used this week was "When Love came to town". You know the one with B.B. King. If you haven't heard it afford yourself 3:57 to listen.
Two things to remember this Christmas season.
1) What were we like before LOVE came to town? I know I wasn't what I would call the best person on the planet. Yet Jesus came to town (earth) for me, knowing full well all of my sins and shortcomings. Yet, he showed up on the scene as a completly helpless baby, dependent on the very creation he had come to save. Facinating! He came for ME. I cannot ever forget that!
2) What can we do to share such a gift? Remember: "God so LOVES the world!" We often get used to the fact that God loves us and our walk with him grows out of that. Which is awesome. Yet at times we forget he loves 'them' too!!
Find someone today who is lost, lonely and looking for that baby in a manger. LOVE NEEDS to come to town for them as well. What a gift to give someone: An encounter with the saviour.
Isn't that what Christmas is all about: God showing his love for us in the form of an infant, born 2000 years ago away in a manger...
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