Wednesday, December 26, 2001
Wednesday, December 26, 2001
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own
doing; it is the gift of God.
A five-year-old was showing his Christmas presents to grandma when she asked, "Did
you get everything you wanted for Christmas?"
The little fellow thought for a moment before answering, "No, I didn't, Grandma. But
that's OK. It wasn't my birthday."
For many people, Christmas is simply another holiday. It is a time for parties and
extravagant gift-giving and mushy feelings, but it has very little to do with Jesus' birth.
Two women, dressed in their finest, were having lunch together in a very exclusive
restaurant. A friend saw them and came over to their table to greet them.
"What's the special occasion?" she asked.
One of the women said, "We're having a birthday party for the baby in our family. He's
2 years old today."
"But, where is the baby?" the friend asked.
The child's mother answered, "Oh, I dropped him off at my mother's house. She's taking
care of him until the party's over. It wouldn't have been any fun with him along."
How ridiculous--a birthday celebration for a child who wasn't welcome at his own party!
Yet, when you stop to think about it, that's no more foolish than going through the
Christmas season, with all of its festivities, without remembering the One whose birth
we are supposed to be honoring.
And yet we know it happens. Many people never get it. They're impressed by the
trinkets, but they miss the triumph of what happened that first Christmas. It's their loss.
The fact is we all got what we really needed, a savior.
(Ephesians 2:8
NRSV)
Did you get what you wanted for Christmas?
Dear God, bring your saving grace in Jesus Christ into my life today and always. Amen.
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