Maybe you're wondering what I mean when I say the mystery of the greatest gift of all time. Today it seems that we have it all. We've become jaded. We forgotten too much. I know that I've disillusioned a time or two. I longed for something more than the stuff that I get under the tree at Christmas. I heard the story of Jesus' birth a million times but haven't fathomed the real mystery behind it.
Only recently have I realized that his coming was the greatest gift of all time. Yet I believed that there was no mystery behind it...that everything was pretty straightforward. I was wrong. Reading and studying the scriptures revealed that the mystery of God's word. Some will still be blind to it, not accepting the Light that has come into the world to displace the darkness. They will want to see some physical proof, not realizing that God came as a man and offered himself as a sacrifice for us. It still blows my mind that God would wrap himself up as a human and die for our sins.
It is equally mind blowing that most blow off that sacrifice. Really....they and I have to admit that I forget too easily that God came in the form of a baby so he could feel what we feel, so he could give us a way out of the darkness and bring us back to himself.
The more I see how jaded society is becoming and how willing they are to put this amazing sacrifice in a box somewhere, the more I long to be free. The message of Christmas is being suppressed everywhere...in our schools, in the military, in the workplace and even in the church. Yet, I see the hope that shines in faces who have heard the message of Jesus Christ and are willing to die rather than recant it. May we too embrace this greatest gift of all time.
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