Have you ever really truly paused to think of what Christmas
is about?
Most of us would respond automatically. Yes. And we would even have the right answer. Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Jesus.
Maybe we’ve thought about it, but have we pondered it?
Do we really take to heart what Christmas is really all
about?
We run around like
chickens with their heads chopped off trying to find the perfect gift for each family member and friend.
Then we take a look at our bank accounts and spazz out because Christmas costs
a ton. Or we scramble to try to make
a meaningful homemade gift for each one.
All the while we are focused on other stuff. Yes- giving
gifts is a good thing. Yes, spending
time with family and friends is a good
thing. But that’s still not what Christmas is about!
Christmas is about Christ. Christmas is the celebration of
JESUS’ birth.
Jesus came to earth so that he could die on the cross and
give us the gift of eternal life. That’s a big thought.
He didn’t have to. He didn’t have to save us. He didn’t have
to DIE for us.
But he did. He died for us. for you. for me. sinners. sinners
who deserve nothing less than going to hell.
But he died anyway.
He came to earth because he loved us.
//years ago my dad had to memorize Isaiah 53 for a Bible
class he was taking. Being very much Daddy’s girl, I was the one who got to
coach him. I heard him recite this passage so many times that I almost had it
all memorized when I had to do it in high school.
Its an amazing passage. and its beautiful! <3 Its talking
about Jesus. Its talking about why Jesus came to earth. Its talking
about why Jesus was born. This passage brings new meaning to one of
my favorite phrases,
beauty from brokenness.
Who hath
believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
For he shall
grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he
hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that
we should desire him.
He is
despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and
we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him
not.
Surely he
hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed.
All we like
sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was
oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as
a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth
not his mouth.
He was taken
from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was
cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was
he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and
with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any
deceit in his mouth.
Isaiah 53:1-9
