Post Sermon from Dec 6th
Christmas is, God breaking into our world, interrupting the routine, disturbing our neatly planned schedules and giving new identity to our calendars.
Think about Mary, she was a young virgin, only engaged to be married and God the Father breaks into her world and plans and makes her pregnant with God the Son.
Think about Joseph. He was a man of righteousness and purity, treating his finance’ with dignity and respect when suddenly an angel comes and says, “By the way, Mary is pregnant, and before you go flying off the handle about her cheating on you and wanting to do great bodily harm to the fella that did it to her – it was God, the creator of the universe, the one who started the planets spinning is now interrupting the world by coming as a baby. Joseph is told to go and take Mary as his wife.
Think of the shepherds, going about their routine, working the midnight shift, when an angel appears and tells them to go to Bethlehem and find a baby lying in a stable. The Shepherds go with haste.
Think about the Wise Men who were studying the stars, when they were told to “Get those baby gifts wrapped, saddle up those animals and follow the star. You are going to worship a new born king. Go and follow the star.”
Whatever else they had planned, whatever was marked on their calendars is now interrupted. They are told to go and do something different than they had originally planned.
That is what Christmas is, God breaking into our world, interrupting the routine, disturbing our neatly planned schedules and giving new identity to our calendars, so we will go and do something different then we originally had planned.