Just a week before Christmas, once again the world is hit with a number of tragedies involving death and fear. Somehow these things seem to heighten during Christmas time.
All our emotions were on the edge, everything in confusion.
At the home front itself, we think about those whom we have lost from our lives, those whom have gone home to be with the Lord, in the Life Group and in Royal Rangers.
And yet, somehow Christmas is a time we always set aside as a time to celebrate, to be with friends, to re-unite with family members. Why?
Then we are led to think that there are people without family, without friends, and those who will celebrate Christmas alone.
Then we think back and recall the story of Jesus’ birth, the first Christmas, when many infants were executed on the account of wanting to exterminate the Son of God. (Matthew 2:16). A tragic moment amidst a time of hope.
Christmas is both a time for sadness and joy. But the strength behind Christmas; to look forward and move on behind, comes from, I believe, its tradition and its history; His story, the story of hope amongst the tragedy. And more and more it seems, tragedy is no longer momentary but has become a way of life for the world. This world desperately needs a Saviour. It needs Jesus.
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