Christmas Light
Christmas is surrounded with lights.
Jesus’ birth was also surrounded with lights.
The shepherds saw a great light and
the Magi followed the light of the star.
Jesus came to be the light of the world.
Make sure you don’t miss
the most important Light of Christmas.
Winter
solstice is when the sun
is the farthest from the earth.
The shortest, or darkest days of the year;
December 21st & 22nd.
Throughout history and around the world,
people have
been looking for the light.
Many cultures gave names to the sun
as a deity they worshiped.
The Egyptians worshiped the sun god Ra.
When Rome conquered the world,
they too,
worshiped a sun god on December 25.
The darkest days of the year,
create a
desire for the light.
To our
natural eye,
the most beautiful time of Christmas
is at night when the many colored lights are lit.
There is a beauty about light
that we are drawn to.
Jesus came into a dark world.
He
came as the light of the world. John 8:12
When I think of the Christmas lights and their
beauty,
I am reminded
of the glorious light of God
and my need to praise Him.
Jesus came into the world,
not only to be a
beautiful light,
but to expose the darkness in our lives.
Many will look at the lights of Christmas;
but will not
let the true light
of Christmas Jesus into their lives.
They will look at the lights,
receive and give gifts
and maybe even go to church;
but after the first of the year,
when the days get longer again,
they will walk in darkness.
So this Christmas let’s open our eyes
and allow God to enlighten us
to His purpose and plan for our lives
and encourage others to do the same.
Scripture
Reading
John 1:3-14 NIV
3 Through him all things were made;
without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of
men.
5 The light shines in the darkness,
but the darkness has not understood it.
6 There came a man who was sent from God; his name
was John.
7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that
light,
so that through him all men might believe.
8 He himself was not the light;
he came only as a witness to the light.
9 The true
light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and though the world was
made through him,
the world did not recognize him.
11 He came to that which was his own, but his own
did not receive him.
12 Yet to all who received him, to those who
believed in his name,
he gave the right to become children of God—
13 children born not of natural descent,
nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born
of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among
us.
We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and
Only,
who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 3:16-21 NIV
16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but
have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world,
but to save the world through him.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned,
but whoever does not believe stands condemned
already
because he has not believed in the name of God's one
and only Son.
19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world,
but men loved darkness instead of light because
their deeds were evil.
20 Everyone who does evil hates the light,
and will not come into the light for fear that his
deeds will be exposed.
21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the
light,
so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done
has been done through God."
