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And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David
a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”
Luke 2:10-11
Have you ever stopped to think that this Gospel account of the birth of Christ is a heavenly love letter?
And
in that moment, by that deed, God was communicating that “I created you
and I love you, and though you abuse your freedom by continuing to sin,
I have now sent my son to save you.”
This divine affection is so profound that when you allow yourself to really think about it, it should leave you breathless.
It is also a LOST AND FOUND STORY – LOST because we would definitely be lost if we had to earn our own way to heaven.
And a FOUND STORY because we have been promised eternal life through our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Out of the darkness of the night there was a bright and shining star.
Out of the darkness to a world so prone to war, came riding on the wings of God’s promises, the “Prince of Peace.”
Let me tell you a story:
A seminary student had been studying the book of John and now sat staring out his dorm window at the darkness beyond. Completely
overwhelmed, he repeated part of the scripture (John1:5) to himself
again, "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not
overcome it."
He
wished he could think of a way to tell his fellow students just what it
meant to him to say that Christ was the light of the world.
And then an idea came to him; he finally figured out how to do it.
He
would need a place that was really dark, and after searching all around
the campus, he found the perfect place for his living analogy -
an old racketball court in the basement of a seldom used building.
With all the lights turned off, there was complete darkness.
Not a single ray of light from outside penetrated the utter blackness.
Then he persuaded his Theology professor to let him take over his class for a day. “I want to make a point for my thesis, but I also want to make a point for my fellow seminarians.”
So he led his class across the campus to the deserted building, down the stairs and sat them around the edges of the court.
Then the young man turned out the lights.
Some students gasped for now it was totally pitch black dark.
The minutes passed and still he said nothing
until finally the darkness became a living thing and when he felt he had waited long enough, he quoted John 8:12 -
“When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
And with these words he struck a match, lit a small candle and said “And that is what Christ is to this world of darkness.”
Then he quoted those words from John's Gospel that are so clear in their meaning.
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it."
The young man continued, “And so it was that the
Son of God entered our world to become one of us and endured the darkness up to and including that dark day at Golgotha.”
And then, in a voice hardly more than a whisper he drove home this wonderful truth…
“Hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on
earth, good will to men.
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep;
God is not dead, nor doth he sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail.
With peace on earth good will to men.”
(poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
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