Celebrating Christmas

An excerpt from my favorite Advent Devotional Book, Come Thou Long Expected Jesus.

People love to celebrate. People love to break from the routine of life and celebrate. All over the world right now lights are strung and special music is being broadcast and trees are decorated and gifts have been lovingly purchased and lavish feasts are being prepared. The curse of C.S. Lewis's land of Narnia was that is was always winter but never Christmas. What monotony and tedium and bleak weariness! Life must be punctuated with celebration. It's a universal human impulse. And where did this inclination come from? God created us this way. "What is the chief end of man?" the Westminster Catechism asks. "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever." Now, that is celebration worthy of the name!

And we who belong to Jesus have powerful reasons to celebrate. God has come to us. God has shown us that this life is not the only life we will ever know, and that this world is not the only reality we will ever experience. God has thrown open the gates of heaven to us through Christ his Son. We have seen the celebration going on within those gates. And that's where we're headed!

TIME TO CELEBRATE!! Merry Christmas from the Huffmans!