Once upon a time, an insignificant group of people sat in the darkness of the cold hours of the night. Like most nights, these people were captured in the longing: The longing for that flash on the horizon that announces that "daylight is coming". The longing for the constellations of Heaven fade into the day; the longing for the true light that begins to melt into peace. Peace that can deliver us from the anxiety caused by the unknown, the unseen, and the fears that creep in with the shadows created by the lesser lights of the night.
THIS particular night...an event would bring a change the way they would look at the skys forever. An event with such majesty that it would tenderize their longing hearts for the rest of their earthly lives. These insignificant people would experience the heavens burst open and eternity would spill forth and out, in full innocence and glory right before their very eyes.
A furious army of eternity's defenders ...would pass through the void, appear in the temporal sky, and would joyfully and boldly announce the Healing of the Eden's breech... "Peace due to God's Will and desire, which would be to all who would receive God's Love Gift, Jesus, who would restore the broken relationship with God and Men".
"You shall find" the "New Borne" Babe...the Alpha...bundled in grave clothes...Alive and resting in a feed trough..........WOW! there couldn't be a more appropriate place for Shepherds to find the food for their longing souls but in the common ground of the familiar...a feed trough.
Our God is so surprisingly and appropriately AMAZING!
He is Emanuel - GOD with us. Able to pay for our sins, able to save us from our sins, able to deliver us from death, able to sustain us in eternal life...and all by meeting us in the familiar.
Right where we are ...take a few moments in the media induced hustle and bustle of this season, get out under the star filled sky ...remember, thank, love and long for Jesus' next burst from eternity...that will call us away once and for all (who love His appearing) into Eternal Christmas, New Creation.
O does your heart long for Him?
HLFA,
Jeff