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You know, if you're a husband and wife, and you want to have some kind of gospel incarnation sanity during Christmas, you're just going to have to be intentional. Nothing in the surrounding culture is going to reinforce that, nothing you will see at the mall, nothing you will watch on television. You're going to have to intentionally focus on the beauty of the gospel story that's depicted in the birth of the Lord Jesus.
Read the Christmas Passages Together
One of the things I would suggest is that you read together all the passages -- Old and New Testament -- that have to do with the Christmas story. Read those. Read them again. Meditate on them. Discuss them. Let scripture begin to be in your heart.
And there's another thing you can do that is wonderful for a couple to do anyway - it is deeply personal - is how about taking a few moments through this season to sit down and confess to one another honestly and humbly the specific ways you still need the grace of this Savior who came in this miraculous way for you? That makes the story personal. It brings it to this moment and reminds you that you haven't yet graduated from your need of what Jesus came to do.
And then a final thing - I'm serious about this - go see a performance of The Messiah. There is no single piece of music that more powerfully demonstrates the need for Jesus to come, the content of His coming, and the results in our lives.
I was taken as a little boy and then a young man every year to see a performance of the full Messiah. I'll never forget that moment when the Hallelujah chorus comes and the crowd stands. I was moved as a little boy and I'm still moved today. It's a wonderful way to remember again the beauty, the glory about the practicality of the coming of Jesus.
