Christmas Day feels strange. It’s like everything stops: everything is closed… the streets are bare… just look out the window and the world feels like it’s holding its breath. Even the falling snow is silent. It’s like the calendar takes a day off (pun intended).
It’s peaceful. Tranquility.
It’s as if the whole world has stopped to take a moment and honor what today means. To honor creation’s King. Just like the shepherds (Luke 2:8-20) and kings of so long ago (Matthew 2:1-12).
And it’s appropriate.
Today represents the coming of creation’s King… that day when the God who created the world stepped into His world as God enrobed in flesh, the incarnation. It is the inauguration of His kingdom, the one which He rules now and will forever rule.
It makes fitting the angels’ cry in Luke 2 when they said “Peace on earth, goodwill toward men (my paraphrase of NKJV)!!”
Today’s peace is fittingly representative of the kingdom that His coming had inaugurated, and that we will see stand forever at His next coming.
Say it with me this Christmas morning: “Come LORD Jesus!”
Happy Christmas to you and your family. May you take joy today in the one and only Hope for this world.
David P. Kreklau... for the Glory of God 