On Christmas Day we will celebrate what God, our Creator, did nearly two thousand years ago. He sent His own loving Christ Spirit into our world in the form of a tiny Child, thereby changing forever the course of human history. We will celebrate also what God is doing now. But as we prepare for Jesus’ birthday, we must remember that our celebration will be of little consequence unless it serves to awaken the Christ Spirit within us. We celebrate, therefore, the Good News that the same Christ Spirit that was embodied in Jesus comes to us, is offered to us now. We can experience the reality of Christ’s coming now.
We can begin now to renew our faith in the reality of God’s coming into our lives in this way. God doesn’t take us by storm, ordinarily. He often comes in ways that are very gentle and very still. We have to be emptied out before He can fill us with Himself. And…
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