Christmas Day. For many of us as kids, it was the day each year when the world became new. We unwrapped toys while we ate more cinnamon rolls and bacon than our little bodies should rightly hold. Magic. Magic with a stomachache perhaps, but magic.
Christmas Day exposed what we longed for but couldn’t articulate. We wanted to be new—and not for a day or a month. We wanted joy, hope, and goodness, and to celebrate it with a cinnamon roll. We wanted a new that wouldn’t end.
But that is the very thing we were celebrating. Such a day had already come. At the Resurrection, the day Jesus rose from the grave, life did become new! New life, new power, limitless love. Freedom from sin, freedom from lies and hiding. The moment we put our faith in Jesus, we knew this was what we’d been waiting for all along. Jesus made new stay new.
The Merriest of Christmases to you from the Forge Team
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.
Revelation 21:5-7
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