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It is really sad how much our time and our effort and our energies are captured by the cultural busyness of this Christmas time, rather than the core of this story. And the way I think about this, we allow Christmas to be more about created stuff than it is about the incarnation of the Creator.
The Creator Became a Man
We've turned it on its head that the glory of this story is that the Creator Himself becomes a Man to rescue us from our bondage to the creation. How horrible is it that Christmas has become about bondage to the creation? So that's just something you need to keep in your brain.
The second thing is it becomes more about decorating and acquiring than being rescued. You know what we all want to do every day of our lives is decorate our lives with beautiful things that we think will satisfy us. Maybe what we've done with the story is a metaphor of that. What we've done with the season is a metaphor of how we just want to decorate everything so life is beautiful to us and that never ends up satisfying us. It's not wrong to want your house to be beautiful at Christmas, but if that's what the season is about, you've missed the whole point.
It's about the fact that nothing is ever going to give us what our hearts long for except the rescue of the Redeemer from all the false things that can't satisfy us. It's not about created stuff. It's not about decorating and acquiring. It's about the incarnation of the Creator to rescue us from all those false hopes.
