A repeat series from last year …
because computer problems didn’t
allow them to go out on schedule.
Merry Christmas … Season!!
Legend tells us that The Twelve Days of Christmas
was a secret catechism during times of persecution.
For these twelve days let’s focus on twelve teachings:
The First Day of Christmas
A Partridge in a Pear Tree
The partridge is Jesus.
The pear tree is the cross.
And the first day of Christmas – indeed, Christmas Day – focuses us on the first and most important truth of the Christian Faith: The baby who came to us at Christmas was bound to die.
Think about it: His swaddling clothes as an infant prefigured the grave clothes of his death. Indeed, little baby Jesus came for one and only one reason: to die. Why? Because only his sacrificial death would ever cover our sin.
So, while partridges and pears are poetic … and sheep and mangers are picturesque … the cross is ugly and violent and bloody.
It is also beautiful.
As C. S. Lewis once said, “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
In Christ’s Love,
a guy who is singing today:
I wonder as I wander
Out under the sky
How Jesus the savior
Did come to die
To save lowly people
Like you and like I
I wonder as I wander
Out under the sky
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