Christmas, the New Day

Sundown is saying goodbye to the day we know and waiting for the day to come. Tonight we celebrate Christmas, the New Day that dawned more than 2,000 years ago.

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Sunset over Bethlehem

I took this photo of sundown over Bethlehem when we visited Israel this fall. Sundown is saying goodbye to the day we know and waiting for the next day to come.

Bethlehem has changed a lot in the past 2,000 years. I’m sure it didn’t look like this when Mary and Joseph made their way here just before Jesus’s birth. But one thing hasn’t changed. For most people, sundown is just the passing of another day. Unless the next day is an important one, we go to bed without knowing exactly what will occur in the next twenty-four hours.

Tonight heralds the celebration of Christmas, the New Day

Tonight, as the sun goes down, we begin to celebrate an upside-down, counter-cultural New Day that changed the world forever.

Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were born or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

Psalms 90:1-2 NASB

We find the One who calls us Home to dwell with Him is residing in a cave far from home.

The One who gave birth to the world through His extraordinary Word is delivered in the hay to average, teen-aged parents.

Christmas, the New Day

That Day was the first Day when it no longer mattered where we lived or what family we were born into. Jesus knows homelessness and abandonment. Jesus trades those in for us and gives us a new genealogy and a new heritage.

Is tomorrow the Day you will answer His call to come Home? Will the morning find you with the One who will never leave you? If you have questions about coming home to Jesus, click to download my free resource, No Greater Love.

May you find yourself at Home this Christmas!

Shalom