Have you lost the wonder of Christmas?
Do you fear you will never get it back?
I grew up in the dark ages in the last century before computers and the internet.
As a child, the wonder of Christmas arrived differently at our houses back then.
I couldn’t wait for the Christmas catalog to arrive in the mail. It came about 90 days before Christmas and inside was the greatest treasures and wonders of the universe. It came with a toy section for Christmas. I still remember how the pages smelled as I turned the pages of that massive catalog to the toy section. It could have easily been named the Seven Wonders of the World. My eyes feasted on one wonder after another, imagining how great life would be once I got a new …. you fill in the blank.
The Wonder of Christmas
Nothing matches the wonder of Christmas through the eyes of a child.
But the wonder of Christmas is more than toys for children.
Christmas is about God becoming a child himself.
Let that sink in.
Christmas is about God becoming a child. Accepting this again is how you and I experience the wonder of Christmas.
Many years before the birth of Jesus Christ, God becoming a child, there was a prophecy in Isaiah 9:2, 6–7 that declared the coming of this child as the hope and wonder of this world.
It says, “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone. … For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end.”
He shall be called wonderful!
Do you know what this word, wonderful, means?
Wonderful is inspiring delight, pleasure or admiration; extremely good; marvelous.
Let me say it another way: “God is Good.”
It is this phrase that has sustained me this past year, after one of the most difficult years of my life.
