What I get, who I see, how much I enjoy the party, where I go, why I wanted the other sweater matter little during this Christmas season. Christmas centers on us but not in that way. My personal wants, likes, preferences, and indulgences only obscure the real reason we stand center stage in the cosmic Christmas story. The haze of personal gratification only confuses the issue.
Christmas is all about us because Jesus made it all about us. Jesus may be the reason for the season, but we are the reason that he came.
Philippians 2:5b-8 says,
5 Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
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