This is the prologue to a set of six readings I prepared for a Christmas Eve service in 2013. I will be posting one each week until Christmas. Feel free to use them for family devotions, personal enjoyment, or for any future Christmas events of your own.
Prologue:
What is the longest amount of time that you have ever waited for something without giving up? A year? Ten years? Forty years? Or maybe sometimes only five minutes? What if you had to wait for something that people had been waiting for for thousands of years? How long do you think you’d keep waiting before your heart shut down?
Tonight we have come together to tell a story. The Christmas story. You probably are already poised to turn in your Bibles to the beginning of Matthew, or to the beginning of Luke. But before we get to Matthew and Luke, I want us tonight to approach the Christmas story as if we’d started from the beginning of Genesis, and we’d just read through several thousand pages about several thousand years of waiting for Christmas, waiting for God to come live with us again. I want us to approach Christmas as if we’d been waiting for Jesus to come for a long, long time, and our hearts had almost shut down. Because Christmas came long, long, long after anyone and everyone except for God would have given up hope.
And it still happened.
God keeps His promises even after our hearts shut down.
The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.
Christmas comes because God wants it more than you do.
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