Ok...So Christmas Was Last Month...
If you have ever had a small child or even been a small child, you know that around Christmas time the anticipation can be overwhelming. I can remember times when I was growing up, where the excitement about the coming of Christmas was electric. I couldn't wait. I couldn't even sleep as it got closer and closer and more and more presents were under the tree. More and more lights were seen around town, and Christmas music filled the radio frequencies. As a small child, I was about to pop with excitement by the time Christmas arrived.
So earlier today I was reading through the first several chapter of Luke and it struck me; the angels, the multitude of heavenly hosts, had been waiting for Christmas. They had been waiting for Christmas like eager children, knowing that it was coming, SINCE BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF TIME! Can you imagine their excitement?
Typically when we think of the lines: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!" (ESV) we think of some five-year-olds, dressed as angels, struggling to muttering the lines in the middle of some Christmas play, while they wave to their parents. This is not the picture we should have.
The angels were ready and well prepared. There was not one who muttered or struggled to remember the line. They were exploding with zeal and excitement about spreading the greatest message the world has ever and will ever hear. They couldn't wait to celebrate, to show up in the radiance of the glory of God and triumphantly proclaim the news of the coming of humanity's Messiah.
You know the funny thing is, they don't even get the full joy of it. Jesus came as the Savior of human beings, not of angels. In fact, Peter states that the angels long to know the love of God as we humans know it in the redemption of Christ.
So picture it. The angels eagerly waiting since before the beginning, as little children wait for Christmas, to announce the first Christmas. Joyously and with great zeal they proclaimed the message, that they, themselves, would never fully know.
So why aren't we more excited, as little children now celebrating Christmas?
So earlier today I was reading through the first several chapter of Luke and it struck me; the angels, the multitude of heavenly hosts, had been waiting for Christmas. They had been waiting for Christmas like eager children, knowing that it was coming, SINCE BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF TIME! Can you imagine their excitement?
Typically when we think of the lines: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!" (ESV) we think of some five-year-olds, dressed as angels, struggling to muttering the lines in the middle of some Christmas play, while they wave to their parents. This is not the picture we should have.
The angels were ready and well prepared. There was not one who muttered or struggled to remember the line. They were exploding with zeal and excitement about spreading the greatest message the world has ever and will ever hear. They couldn't wait to celebrate, to show up in the radiance of the glory of God and triumphantly proclaim the news of the coming of humanity's Messiah.
You know the funny thing is, they don't even get the full joy of it. Jesus came as the Savior of human beings, not of angels. In fact, Peter states that the angels long to know the love of God as we humans know it in the redemption of Christ.
So picture it. The angels eagerly waiting since before the beginning, as little children wait for Christmas, to announce the first Christmas. Joyously and with great zeal they proclaimed the message, that they, themselves, would never fully know.
So why aren't we more excited, as little children now celebrating Christmas?
posted by Mark & Kristin Schweitzer | 4:00 PM
5 Comments:
That's really neat.
I picture it. Never quite thought of it that way. Very well said!
yeah, that's an interesting way to think about it
yeah, that's an interesting way to think about it
i'll say it again if i want to!
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