“What do you want for Christmas?”

            I’ve just returned from the annual VBMB meeting in Roanoke.  The great value of these meetings I find to be the tremendous services of worship.  Kate Campbell provided music and I sat and actually heard three sermons delivered by Tony Campulo.

             Tony spoke about the Christmas season and the present state of our economy.  Much of the blame of our situation, as a nation, belongs right at home.  It’s reflected in a well-known phrase that we hear every Christmas, “I just don’t know what to get him/her!”  Why?  “Because they have everything.”  Therefore, the logical answer is “nothing.”  But logic won’t stop us, will it?

             I don’t think that our Christmas celebration, as it stands in today’s culture, is what God had in mind.  About a year before he succumbed to cancer, Tony Snow, former political pundit speechwriter and White House press secretary, said the following to the 2007 graduating class and the Catholic University of America: 

             “Wherever you are and whatever you do, never forget at this moment, and every moment forward, you have a precious blessing.  You’ve got the breath of life, and while God doesn’t promise tomorrow, He does promise eternity.”  (Preaching, Vol. 24, #3)

             Perhaps this Christmas we should take stock in Tony’s advice and look beyond our momentary troubles to see both this life and the life to come as precious gifts for which to be thankful.  The greatest gift is the gift of God’s love through His Son, Jesus Christ.  “Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you…”  (Luke 2:11)

                                                                                                                            Merry Christmas,

                                                                                                                            Dave

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