Somehow December manages to be the busiest month of the
year. As strains of “Silent Night” fill the air, we are everything but silent
as we scurry around buying gifts, going to parties, baking all sorts of
delectable sweets.
Rather than pondering the lyrics of “It Came upon a Midnight
Clear,” we burn the midnight oil until putting two coherent thoughts together
becomes a major accomplishment. Then before we know it, it’s New Year’s Eve and
Christmas is all but forgotten.
But what if we stopped for a moment to soak in the season?
What if we made rest one of the items
on our to-do list? What if we slipped away and stilled our soul long enough to
think, long enough to ask some questions about the purpose and value of Christmas?
Perhaps we would discover that the story of Christmas is so much bigger
than December 25.
In fact, it’s a story—a true story—that continues all the
way to Easter and beyond. It’s a story
that has the power to change every day of our lives on this earth and our
eternal destinies as well—because it’s the story of the God of the universe
humbling Himself to be born a man for the express purpose of sacrificing
Himself so our relationship with Him could be restored.
If we take a moment to let that truth seep into the depths
of our hearts and minds, I daresay we won’t be able to look at Christmas the
same way again. No more will “the most wonderful time of the year” be limited
to December. Instead, the message of Christmas will cause us to overflow with joy
throughout the remaining eleven months of the year. Why? Because the Wonder
that was born on Christmas is still alive today and will be forevermore.
As you take time this
holiday season to ponder the significance of Christmas, my cousin and I hope
you will find this song a helpful point of focus. We pray its rhetorical
questions impress upon you the magnitude of the birth, life, death, and
resurrection of Jesus, the Wonder of wonders.
To learn more about "Wonder of Wonders," read the story behind the song here.
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