Advent and Christmas are about the fact that God became a human being. This historical fact changes what it means to be a human being. It implies that no human life can ever be accurately looked at or understood without Jesus’ help. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Ethics, writes: “Since God became a human being in Christ, all thinking about human beings without Christ is unfruitful abstraction. The counter-image of the human being taken up into the form of Christ is the human being as self-creator, self-judge, and self-renewer; these people bypass their true humanity and therefore, sooner or later, destroy themselves.” Are you confused about your life or who you are as a human being? The one place to find answers to life’s deepest questions lies between the borrowed manger of Christmas and the borrowed tomb of Easter. You can’t decide what your life means; God already has. Go to Him this Advent with all your questions and desires. To turn away from Him is self-destruction: a denial of your own humanity. To turn toward Him is life. Be like the three wise men we sing about every Christmas and follow the star that shines for Jesus Christ. Let His birth bring about new birth in you.
Pastor John Torres
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment