On Christmas Greetings

Christmas greetings differ from other letters in that they turn our hearts toward the infancy of Christ and all that was birthed in the earth from the miraculous conception. The inevitability of His birth drags us along. We are forced to concede the inevitability of His kingdom, its seemingly small beginnings and its unfurling ownership of history. We sense we are players on a very large field. Angels have made announcements, a baby has leaped for joy in his mother’s womb, wise men knelt down, and a star from regions inaccessible to man was diverted for the Creator’s own purpose. We had nothing to do with any of this. It was ordained and executed without our permission or assistance. All of it is laid before us as a panorama of majestic appointments once secret but now scrolling into open view.  In the midst of this churning history our God transforms us. His gift is faith. It is a conviction. When Jesus walked the earth it was said of Him that He did all things well. He still does all things well. There are no mistakes.

For Christian Culture,

Don Schanzenbach