Merry Christmas!
Oh sweet music that is ours! He has come to earth: this tender baby, the Word of Heaven, held warm against his mother, and nestled in straw and hay against our cold.
We have waited this long time, earth panting under it’s curses, and mankind lonely in the cold despair of chaos. But, he has kept his appointment. Our regal King, with all the sweet scent of summer and life, has stepped over the horizon and into our battle. We don’t know it yet, but this little baby is the fullness of God’s infinity. The seed. The seed grows into a tree that produces every good fruit. God has given us the Seed of Himself. It is his best! It is the gift of Himself.
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:10). The world measures wealth by what it gains. In God’s kingdom wealth is measured by what one gives. God is wealthy in love. God has given away his best to love us. And we too will find true wealth when we give all that we have to love God and to love others. God has made us his children; Christ has made us his bride. He has overlooked ten thousand blemishes and still found us lovely. It is inexplicable. It is wonderful.
Under his canopy we were adorned with wedding cloths. He has removed the stinking rags of ignominy. We have a marriage and a signet ring that says we belong to him. Now nothing, and no one, can sever us from our eternal companion and love. He has drawn us from a wedding into a marriage. We are learning to live in his mansion, under his banner of love, under this new order of life—the rule of being blessed, and being a blessing; being made lovely, and loving. All that the Father is, he is making us. All that the Father has revealed in the Son, the Son is perfecting in his bride.
Philippians 3:16 says, what has already come upon us, let us now walk it out. Eternity has come upon us. Let Bride and Groom walk hand in hand in this flush union of spirits. Merry Christmas! He loves us! Oh how he loves us! Let us now walk out the perfecting of our union with love.
Tags: love, christmas, advent, incarnation
