Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The Grand (True) Epic

As we enter this Christmas season, I hope that the church puts this story into its larger context: the story of redemption.  Christmas is the celebration of God bringing His story to a climax by entering the story Himself to reverse the curse.  Too often, we break all the images and pieces of the story into their individual components and miss the true joy, the true comfort that this event offers us.  Henri Nouwen says it better than I can when he writes:
“Christmas is saying ‘yes’ to a hope based on God’s initiative, which has nothing to do with what I think or feel.  Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God’s work, not mine.  Things will never look just right or feel just right.  If they did, someone would be lying…But it is into this broken world that a child is born who is called Son of the Most High, Prince of Peace, Savior.”
Let us start the Advent season here - in a story in which God sends His Son to mend the brokenness.  Let us put all the pieces back into place and see the story for the grand (true) epic that it is!

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