It strikes me as interesting that every year Christmas rolls around and here we are doing the same things, over and over again. You know… like traditions? I just wrote a post about christmas traditions that I have/had. But anyhow, traditions, they can become old, tired, boring, and even empty and lifeless.
I’ve had the opportunity to read through the story of Jesus’ birth several times this year already. Thinking back on bible college, high school, church, sunday school, youth group, boys brigade, home, and all the other places that I have heard/read this story, it is amazing to think of the amount of times that I have read it and been exposed to it.
One would think that it could get old or routine by now. Yet it doesn’t. It still proves to be an incredible story that honestly I can’t wrap my mind around. God becoming like me, only so that He could die for me. Weird! I’ve been loving John 1 this year. I know it isn’t our traditional donkey, inn keeper, wisemen, manger scene depiction of the Christmas story. Yet at the same time, it is unbelievably amazing to think that Jesus is God, was God, never has not been with God, and all of a sudden He becomes the very expression of God to each one of us. Unbelievable. Check it out. John 1.
What do you think? Do you find yourself tired of the story, or continually amazed? What new insight have you picked up on?
Let’s hear your thoughts… Continue the conversation…
~Peter
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Continually amazed that God would choose to send His one and only Son to ultimately pay for my sins that were about 2000 years from being committed. I never knew you were in boy’s brigade. Did you only do Stockade? I am probably not spelling it correctly, but Batailian was for the older guys…