I saw a Facebook post this morning from Carissa, whose son is in the Navy. She and her husband just arrived in a far-away city, in order to spend some sweet time with him. In another, I saw that my older son's girlfriend had given him an early Christmas present: a trip to see a vocal band in the ATL last night. These posts reminded me of the truth humans try to live out every day:
We love to be with the ones we love.
Isn't that particularly true at Christmas? All the shopping and gift-buying - - well most of it - - is done so that we can be with those we love and give the gifts to them, share the gift of our lives with them.
This is the "why" of Christmas, the "sod" (Hebrew סוֹד , for "deepest meaning") of the Christmas story.
So that God could eternally be with the ones He loved, He sent the One He most loved ... to reconcile us hopeless sinners to Himself.
(2 Corinthians 5:19)
This was the perfect love of God, manifested in that He "did not even spare His own Son, but offered Him up for us all." (Romans 8:32)
There was no other way for us to have a relationship with God. And, since God loved us that much, He made the ultimate sacrifice, in the Person of His Son.
#BornToDie
This is the selfless love of Christmas. May we embrace and exemplify it as we journey on through this season of Advent, toward the birthday of the King.
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