Hi! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! Today is the start of some Christmas traditions. And that's great, but I want to call you to to remember the reason we celebrate the season! It's thanks to God's gift to us. Jesus Christ. Most people think the wise men, who visited little Jesus, started the gift giving tradition. But they didn't. God did, when he gave His Son to us. Just think of what it might have been like for Joseph. Mary was pregnant, but it wasn't because she was unfaithful and immoral. God put baby Jesus in her. So it must have seemed disgraceful to Mary and Joseph's families. But Mary became the mother of Jesus! Just imagine just HOW amazing it would have been!
Now look at it from the shepherds point of view. They saw a ANGEL (which I played in Caravan to Bethlehem) come to them! Just think of the beauty and wonder the angel had! It must have been AMAZING! Try to imagine the hosts of angels. Angels. They would have been so beautiful. A whole lot of people were scared when I appeared (In Caravan to Bethlehem) and thought I was beautiful. So Imagine a REAL angel coming to the shepherds. It would have been awesome!
Lets try to see this from say the wise men. I think the wise men visited Jesus when he was around hmm say 2 years old. They had been following the star for a bit of time and have NO idea of the majesty they will find. Then Herod stopped them, to see where they were heading. He must have seemed at least kinda scary to them. So it might have been terrifying to come before him. I wonder if they were suspicious of Herod when he said he wanted to "worship" him. Herod really just wanted to kill him to stay king. And the wise men had a dream(ish) and were told by God not to go back the same way they came, because Herod was trying to kill baby Jesus. Just imagine that. They saw God's Son and God spoke to them!
Thanks for reading!
-Squirrely-Bob!
