This.Is.Christmas
Your love is like a flash mob. It arrives unannounced and before anyone can put words to it, it vanishes leaving a puzzled crowd feeling gratitude and worship. As your people try to put words to the event the meaning slowly slips through our finger tips as we wait expectant for it to return. The religious and academic elite record the accounts and do their best to squeeze it void of meaning but the one thing that I can’t seem to shake… is that something happened. You see before I was dead but now… I am more aware of the fact that I am indeed alive than ever before.
The resurrection didn’t just happen 2000 years ago
It happened today
It happened here
It’s happening to me.
Immanuel, or “God with us” is the bold proclamation that God so loved the world that he entered into the cracks of it and loved the hell out of it. Its the proclamation that there is in fact a new way to live, a new way to breathe, and a new way to die. His love is so violently beautiful that it has found us this evening and left us desiring more. I can’t keep telling the same story this year after what just happened because this…. This.Is.Christmas
-Billy
