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Waiting
The anticipation of waiting
H.J. Wilson’s catalog store from Baton Rouge.
By 1982 it was the third largest catalog store in the US until it eventually sold to Service Merchandise.
As a child, I remember thumbing through their catalog and circling all of the items that I wanted for Christmas.
Then came the waiting to see if I would get what I wished for.
Judaism had for thousands of years awaited their Savior.
Along the way, they had come up with quite a few things they wanted Him to be or do.
Wrapping
After Mom would do the Christmas shopping she would wrap all of the presents.
In my mind’s eye it seems that she must have wrapped each part separately because there always seemed to be a mountain of presents under the tree.
Of course it could just be that there were so many of us it seemed that way.
On Christmas morning all of the paper would be torn away and what would be revealed was the reality behind all of those dreams.
Sometimes it was what was expected, but, more often than not, a surprise was present.
For the nation of Israel, when all of the wrapping was removed from their new Savior, He wasn’t at all what they expected.
Luke 2:1-1
Under the swaddling clothes that Bethlehem’s baby boy was wrapped in was not the political or military hero that Israel was asking for.
Instead they found a meek, humble, suffering-servant.
They were not wrong to expect that Christ would come in glory and power.
They did not misread the scriptures that say that of His Kingdom there would be no end.
It is just that they got things terribly out of order.
Baby Jesus’ unwrapping was not going to deliver them physically from their current struggles.
Instead He had come to deliver them from their greatest enemies, sin and death!
Worshipping
Back to Christmas Past…I remember so many of the wonderful gifts of my childhood.
My first “big boy bike”, my race-car track, my train track, my remote control car that my Dad wrecked the first time it was driven!
I remember the feelings of elation and excitement when the waiting was over and the wrappings had been removed.
I just wanted to enjoy the gifts and I never wanted the day to end!
Those are feelings that we should have about the greatest gift of Christmas!
That we could just focus exclusively on the gift, that we could explore all of the nuances of His Being.
That the day would never end!
That is the message of Christ.
HE IS HERE and we have come to WORSHIP HIM!
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