Thoughts for another day

Dec. 26, 2012.

Today's verse: Luke 2: 30-32. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Each year Christmas comes and Christmas goes.  For many of us, one Christmas isn't much different from the other apart from the fact that we've grown older or, of the people whom we've celebrated Christmas with in the past, there aren't a few who've gone to be with the Lord.  Yet, Christmas has a greater significance than that which we seemingly take to hold.

It's the higher calling of man one is lead to look at during Christmas: the dazzling beauty of the love God has shown us in that He left His glory behind, coming to us in human form; and what's indeed surprising and difficult to ingest is the fact that He, the Owner of the universe, the only One who could choose to be born where He wanted, chose to be born in a dark and dank stable, in a manger, the feeding trough of benign cattle!  Yea and His parents, 'the poor of the Lord' laid Him down in swaddling clothes in that awful crib, tinged with the gooey spittle of the barn livestock in pitch dark, but for the glint of the star above, rushing in glittering haste so as to shower its glitter on its Owner and Master.  Funny, how God's creation, but for man (barring a few), was totally tuned to the birth of its Creator and found great pleasure in glorifying Him in their own ways.

Christmas is the time, when we allow our shallow selves to be filled deeply with the eclectic array of God's beauteous nature and His character which so much overflows with mercy and love.  It's the time to hurl the inadequacies we possess, by our lack of living in His light and rather adorn ourselves with His warm glow and embrace.  It's the time to latch on to His Saving Grace and through it to also display His nature in our dealings with others so that we shine brightly as the star above His crib bringing joy and warmth to maybe, a soul in distress.  That I believe is the best gift we can give our Master.