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Posted by Matt Brooks on December 04 2007 at 08:05 PM

It’s that time of year again. Isn’t it interesting how those words illicit different emotions depending on who’s reading it. for some of you, you read those words with utter dread. Most children would read those words with extreme jubilation. Some are so excited about the season is seems like it was barely November before they had their inflatable snow globes and icicle lights in the front yard. Others view Christmas with about as much anticipation and excitement as they do a root canal or an audit from the Internal revenue service. Then there are the majority of us. We haven’t changed the ring tone on our cell phone to Jingle Bells or Rock around the Christmas Tree, but neither are we wishing the season would hurry and come and go so life could just get back to normalcy. If we’re honest, most of us have just kind of gotten numb to Christmas. It has become just another time of the year and just another reason to get together with family and maybe exchange a few gifts. And that got me thinking. See I love Christmas. I love the smiles and excitement on Jaylon and Jaron’s face on Christmas morning when they open their gifts. I know. I know. That’s not what Christmas is really about. I agree. But I still enjoy it. I still enjoy knowing that sometime this Christmas I’ll get out in the yard with Andrew-my little brother-and throw football. I still enjoy that somebody this year will burn the rolls and talk about how every year somebody burns the rolls. I still enjoy how JoAnna-my little sister- will still puff her lip out and pout when the last gift is opened. I still enjoy Christmas.

I am in no way implying that we should perpetuate the materialistic mentality that has become Christmas. But I am saying that I think you should enjoy Christmas. Here’s my reason for thinking this. Christmas is all about God becoming flesh and dwelling among us. Hence the name of our current Christmas Series-He Came. Then I think about a cool passage where Jesus talked about one of His reasons for coming. He said, “I come to give you life, and life abundant.” One translation says “life to the full.” Now that seems to me to mean that Jesus came so we could enjoy life. So it would seem to me that we should enjoy the season that celebrates His coming to give us life to enjoy. Therefore, without diluting the real meaning of the Christmas season, I am going to enjoy it. I’m going to do my best to enjoy it as much as my kids do. I’m going to enjoy the fact that HE CAME. He came. God came. The undeniable, unequivocal, irreplaceable, sovereign, King of the Universe came. That’s reason enough to enjoy.

Merry Christmas

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To reitterate:

The Amplified version says He “came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).”

I like that…

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