You know how The Polar Express has a kind of creepy animation, plus a bunch of edge-of-your-seat and what’s-going-to-happen-next moments?
Little Sarah is 6, and all through the movie she kept asking, “Is it going to be all right?”
We had to reassure her, “Yes, Sarah, it’s going to be all right.”
Of course it’s going to be all right.
Because it’s Christmas.
Without Christmas, I’m left guessing
Does anyone really care? Does anyone know? Does anyone understand? Is anyone there? Is it going to be all right?
God could have left me his letter and expected me to just believe it. But, he did more.
He did more because there was something to be done on earth. Of course, he could have snapped his fingers and done that something from heaven. He could have rigged it so that no work on earth was necessary. But he didn’t.
He came here himself and did the work that he rigged to only be done by himself on earth in a human body.
He showed up in person and lived like I have to
He put on my clothes and lived in my house, and experienced first-hand what it’s like to live in my body. Which isn’t pretty.
He already knew what it’s like to live in my body, but, he experienced it first-hand so I would KNOW he knew.
He played in the dirt without getting all dirty
The work he did without getting dirty meant I could get cleaned up from my dirtiness, if I would only come to him for the cleaning.
Plus, he rigged it so I don’t even have to get dirty again, if I would only stick with him when I do my playing.
I’m not alone
Someone cares
Life is now rigged to turn out all right
Because of Christmas.
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. – 2 Peter 1.3-4
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