"Our spiritually dark world, groping for stability, staggers in a cycle of repeated disasters. But Jesus, the babe in Bethlehem, declared that 'He is the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life' (John 8:12). Christmas challenges us to consider that there is something transcendent, eternal & greater than we are; it is about the Lord of two worlds--the material & the spiritual--descending to live, for a season, by the rules of one, so that He could resolve its dysfunction, disharmony & discord.
"Christmas, then enables Christians to avoid understanding God as an abstract set of principles. In a sense, it is a time for unwrapping secrets. And at Christmas, God unwrapped His greatest secret of all--the greatest gift of all--His Son, the Lord Jesus."
--James Eckman, "Unwrapping the greatest secret of Christmas," Omaha World Herald, Dec. 25, 2018
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