It's 7:00 am Christmas morning. Most of my family is still asleep. I have just had some time this morning, before we jump into the commercial aspect of Christmas, to reflect on it's history. God keeps bringing the words to me "He paid a debt he did not owe, because I owed a debt I could not pay". I've been really digging into those words this morning. Ever since my wreck, things like that just seem all the more fantastic.
I went to a Christmas Eve service with my family last night, and the pastor offered the visual of what the first Christmas Eve must have been like in Heaven. A Father sending his son off to war, just like one might do today, only he didn't just fear his son would die an agonizing death, he knew it. Can you imagine? Now I don't have kids, but I don't think you have to, to understand how hard that must have been. Only he did it, without question. What kind of love is that? It is truthfully still so hard for me to wrap my brain around. I've been raised in the church, it's been a part of my entire life.....but that is still a hard concept to grasp. Imagine whatever it is that you love most in the world. Be it a child, or a parent, sibling, or maybe it is a material posession. Now imagine, gladly handing it over for destruction by people who hate you, for people who hate you. WOW! Doesn't that just make you want to meet him! Man, I can't wait. Talk about Star Struck. We don't know the meaning of the word...yet!
Merry Christmas friends! I hope you all have an awesome day with family and friends. And I hope that whatever gifts you give and receive this season, that you will be reminded of the biggest gift you were given by the one who loves you most.
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