In our technology saturated world, if you take the time to do a Google search on the word “Christmas,” you will find an endless list with numerous suggested additional searches including, songs, countdown, games, quotes and the history. And if you type in the same word at http://www.dictionary.com, you get a simplified definition, as a noun, “the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.”
However, you and I know it is so much more than those. It’s about memories, families, and most important the coming of a child who would impact every life … just look at our calendar.
With the coming of that child, Jesus, the Christ, we receive, Hope, Love, Joy and Peace. Not the hope of, maybe this or that will happen. Rather a Hope, an assurance, that things WILL be different, I WILL be different, things ARE different, I AM different. It’s a Love that is unending, that gives everything we need for life and godliness through His Divine Power, as we allow Him to work in us and through us. It’s a Joy which is not based on an event, a moment, or even an achievement, but an abiding happiness that comes from Jesus, shared with Others and You. And finally, the Peace that passes all understanding, that doesn’t even make sense, when things are going good or bad…It’s all okay, He’s got you.
As you celebrate Christmas this year, choose the deeper meaning of Christmas that will stay with you all year.
Kem Haggard
Harbor Light Assembly of God
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