"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake...shall save it" (Luke 9:23-24).
What makes Christmas so worthy of celebration is not the gifts we look forward to receiving--its not all the lights that we hang---the family that we see or the good food that we eat. I enjoy all those things about Christmas. But the wonder of wonders that ought to thrill our souls is that the God who spoke the universe into existence and flung the stars into place put aside his royal garments and took on robes of flesh. The wonder of Christmas is not only that Jesus became flesh in the womb of a virgin named Mary, but that He did so in order to become sin on a cruel cross and redeem us from all iniquity (2 Cor. 5:21).
We truly celebrate the Christ of Christmas when in the light of what Jesus did for us, we deny ourselves, take up His cross and follow him.
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