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Christmas now, Christmas forever
By Kurt Simons | December 22, 2006
Christmas is a good time to think about forever, since that’s what it’s all about. For a fundamental truth about human life is that, once begun, it lasts until eternity. We are here in this physical world for what, seen in that perspective, is but a breathless moment, “a watch in the night.” Yet in that brief moment is wrapped up everything that we will be and become into all the fartherest reaches of that eternity. And we do not even know just how long our moment here will last. How then do we fill our minds and days? If there had not been Christmas, the answer would be simple: we would be preparing for our sure destiny in hell. But He came, He, the Lord God Jesus Christ, Creator and Master of the great wide universes, physical and spiritual. He came, not once, but twice, to our tiny speck of planet, to our tiny minds. And He gave us back that which was lost, our free will, to choose, ourselves, our destiny in forever. This is the true and greatest gift of Christmas. May we remember it as we make choices in the moment we have here. May we honor that gift, and the Giver, by seeking in our lives the path to heaven that He reopened for us through Christmas. In the words of His Book, “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” (Psalm 90)