The Christmas miracle is you!

     We often think that the Christmas miracle is Jesus.  That would be true if we didn't know that Jesus was there all along.  The Lord of all creation was ALWAYS the Lord of all creation.  The miracle is that He created not only the earth and all that is within it but He also created the miracle that is you!  In the Psalm we read that we were there before the foundation of the world with God and that we were formed in our mother's wombs by the very hand of God.  We are told that He knew and knows everything we will think, say and do before we were even birthed.  The Word tells us that no matter what we think, say and do that the love of God will never fail, will never exclude and will never deny anyone access to that love.  Yet, we miss the point.  We are convinced by the father of lies, Satan, that we are not a miracle.  We are told to focus on how we have failed, fallen, and faltered in our faith thus denying the glory of God in our lives.  We are the Christmas miracle as we proclaim and demonstrate the love of God through our lives with every breath we take.
     Don't get me wrong, we do need to remember the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.  For without Christ there is no means by which  mankind may be saved.  History not remembered is doomed to be repeated.  The whole of the Christmas story is one of the culmination of history.  The crescendo of the Christmas story from Genesis through Revelation is a increasing thunderous roar that the Lord of all creation was, is and is to come!  Do you feel it?  Can you feel it?  Where are you?  Are you standing on your feet yelling for the winning team?  Your proclamation of the love of God is only as deep as the love you have for Him in you.  If you cannot see the love of God in yourself, Christian, then you are most certainly not able to see the love of Christ in others. The paradox is exposed when we realize that we are able to love others only when we realize that we have no love to give.  It's then that we see that abandonment of our old man or the past is taking past that we find ourselves with something to give away.  Not just popcorn in a movie though.  Rather, we have the very gift of eternal life to give towards and to others. 
     Living like the Christmas miracle is as difficult as we make it.  We need to believe that we are a miracle from God in order to present to the world the miracle that is within us and that we are.  Do you really believe that you are a miracle?  Do you really believe that you have the choice to display to the world the Love of God?  Then act like it, think like it, speak like it.  Don't let the constrictions of the past or the restrictions of those around you take away the love of God that Jesus gave his life for.  We cannot put this in our calendars to do list scheduled for this or that time.  We cannot depend upon others  to daily remind us of this Christmas miracle that is you, that is I, or that is for the Christian family.  The evidence of the miracle is YOU!  It is the YOU that tells the world without words that you have the joy, hope and grace of God.  Do you?  I hope so.  The Christmas miracle is you!