Seems like every year, Christmas comes and
goes so much faster!
Right after Halloween, Christmas lights
begin to flicker.
Before you know it, in the Christmas rush we’re
all encumbered.
Then we blink, and January is practically
over!
‘Where did Christmas go?’, I look around and wonder.
With this question, I remove my ‘Christmas
blinder’--
The blinder that blocks that day’s Godly
intent,
About His Son Who into our world was sent.
Christmas was God’s first step toward The Lord's cross,
On dusty roads so far from that Christmas
gloss.
Into some mean, ugly and hateful parts of
our world,
One-by-one, Jesus’ life giving words would
impearl.
Then one day, Christmas came to Calvary’s
hill.
Where God wrote a story with a blood-filled quill.*
‘I
LOVE YOU ALL THIS MUCH!’,
began the story He wrote.
Then He sacrificed His Son with one great
final stroke.
Ahhh, but to His awesome story, this was not
the end,
Look around, take a peek at what His story
began--
A Church worldwide, reaching across the
ages,
Whose start is recorded on Bible pages!
His story continues today with ink that’s
still fresh,*
Writing redemptions of lives that in sin
were enmeshed.
Writing our visions of a future so glorious,
And why, in Him, we can live lives that are
generous.
...Generous
in giving Him all due praise and honor.
...Generous
in sharing with our sister and brother.
...Generous
in spreading far and wide His Good News,
...Generous
in warning others of satan’s ruse!
Into our world, en route to the cross is where Christmas went,
Then into a tomb, doorway to hades, Christmas was sent.
Resurrected from hades, Christmas victoriously raised,
So His Holy Spirit into hearts, one-by-one,
would then blaze!
Now it is your turn to tell me, where did your
last Christmas go??
Decorations, cards and gifts, is that all the Christmas you know??
If so, may you trade in the outward glitz,
glamor and the glow
Of your Christmas, for God’s year-long
presence
I have come to know.
