Religion & Spirituality
What is Christmas all about? If you were an alien who was visiting this planet through the Advent “Christmas” season, what would you say Christmas is all about? The message of Christmas seems to be getting more and more confusing every year. And if an alien was visiting this planet and trying to figure out why people act the way they do this time of year, it would certainly be mindboggling. Until, until that alien wanders into a place like this and see the witness of God’s people gathered for worship to hear again the story of the blessed baby born in a humble manger to the most unlikely of parents and met at his birth by the strangest of visitors and yet Harold as a King and Savior to all by a heavenly chorus.The story of Christmas is found as we read in a what seems to be a throw away sentence in our Gospel. “But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.” What might happen in your life and mine if not just this Christmas night, but if every day we stopped to listen, if every day we stopped to hear the story, if every day we saw the baby, if every day we bowed to worship?What might happen in your life and mine if we were to treasure all these things and ponder them in our hearts?Perhaps we need to step back and ask if the “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” offered you an invitation to know him and be known by Him would you say yes? Or would you turn away?If you want to say yes, if you are tired of the routines of Christmas without ever experiencing the power and presence of Jesus. If you want to know what God has purposed for you to know, love, and enjoy. If you want to be reminded of God’s loving kindness poured out for you. If you want to know that there is more to life than the trappings of this world. There is an answer, there is a better way and this is why we are here tonight to be reminded of this story, of God’s invitation to unlikely people to see, know, and love and be loved by Jesus that they would find unending joy and God’s purpose revealed in them. That we might treasure all these things in our hearts and experience the fullness of Joy that Jesus has brought into the world and for which angels do sing. Amen.Support the show (http://www.easytithe.com/stbdeland)