Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, and Joy to the World… This is the first Christmas where Jesus is at least relevant in any sense for me.
The one thing that seems to hit me here and now is that
Life's NOT FAIR.
I'm not talking about in the sense where five-year-olds normally talk about "fairness."Our normal expectancy of what is fair refers to when we feel like we have been cheated out of what we deserve. A lot of the times we say it because we were expecting something that we really DON'T deserve.
So as a Christian, a basic belief is that I do deserve to be sent to hell because of my own sinful nature. I will never dispute that – I know how screwed up I am. And in ALL fairness, that should be my fate because that is what I deserve. But what God did when Jesus was born on earth was something beyond that – an innate unfairness, so to say, because he was born for no reason except to make life unfair for us.
That's what I rejoice in – that life is indeed unfair for me, because there is a Savior who is willing to grant me my life through his birth, suffering, and death. And since I was baptized just a couple weeks ago (December 6th), this is even more real to me - I've just professed that I'm willing to identify myself with that Savior.
So this Christmas has special meaning for me. It's a day full of life.
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