Many years ago, there was a
baby doll on the market at Christmastime, dressed in pajamas and a nightcap.
When you soaked its diaper in water, a birth certificate appeared and would
announce the sex, name, weight, etc. of the baby. And for one out of every
200,000, the birth announcement would announce TWINS and the company would send
you another doll exactly like the first for free. Well, at the time, I had a
foster daughter who wanted the twins. Uh…. Yeah. So I bought the one doll and
just planned on dealing with the disappointment when the time came.
On Christmas morning, she
opened the package and we immediately went to the bathroom sink to soak the
diaper. She opened the birth certificate and it indeed said TWINS! I was
screaming with excitement! Yes! Holy cow! Woo Hoo! Unbelievable!! Aren’t you
excited? Her response – “Yeah, it’s what I wanted.” – like I didn’t understand.
She was pleased but clearly not amazed at the improbability and the odds.
I share this because I sometimes
wonder if we sometimes wake up to Christmas morning this same way. We are
celebrating the day of Christ’s birth, the One (and only One) Who came to save
us when there was no other way. Do we respond like this daughter, with a “Yeah…?”
Or do we realize the magnitude of odds against us? And do our hearts swell with
such amazing gratitude with a fist pumping Yes! Woo hoo! Hallelujah!
With all that’s going on in
the days ahead to celebrate this Christmas, let us humbly bow with an
overwhelming thanks to this King… for we were once lost (you remember that low,
lost, give-your-life-to-Jesus moment?), and now you are found and saved for
eternity. Yes, indeed. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
Hebrews 9:26 Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer
many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for
all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice
of himself.
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