Christian View 2022 - #39

No matter what the past 11 months might have mustered on the world stage, across the human experience and in the human heart - it all has to drain its debris and disappointments into December.

There is an uncompromising strength about this sacred season.

Christmas can stand against anything the world can throw. It’s because Advent is the answer for the anger and anxiety, the wounds and worries of a weary world that we are invited to bring our brokenness to Bethlehem.

It’s no match for the the child who is born and the son who is given whose name is Wonderful Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace.

Let the months roll on - they inevitably come to the month of the manger and lose their menacing message before the God- Incarnate.

The Christian view of 2022 embraces the all powerful, encompassing love of God.

Regardless of the relentless assault that the Devil and Darkness perpetrates - it cannot prevail in the presence of the Word made flesh who came to dwell among us.

Christmas is not God at His weakest - a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes… No Christmas is love incarnate - endearing, enduring, eternal …

"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem "Christmas Bells" by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The song tells of the narrator hearing Christmas bells during the American Civil War,

And in despair I bowed my head;�"There is no peace on earth," I said:�"For hate is strong,�And mocks the song�Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"��Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:�"God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!�The Wrong shall fail,�The Right prevail,�With peace on earth, good-will to men!"

December is a declaration that God is alive and has come to our world to redeem, rescue and reset our lives to live in faith and not fear.

Merry Christmas!

Randy B. Leavitt

Pastor