There are times this year where life will become rather difficult. There will be loved ones who come down with serious illnesses. There will be stress that will make us all want to pull our hair out. There are families here today who will experience the loss of a family member who has gone on to eternal life. But through it all, we have to remember and lean on those words that we sang during Compline: “God is with us!”
Our secular culture has no room for angels or heavenly revelation. People who claim to have spoken to angels are generally considered crazy. But as Christians we know that God is not some remote, absent collective consciousness, that has little or no influence in our daily lives. Instead, we know that He is the God of the living; a loving Father Who acts every minute of every day on our behalf.
Jesus wasn’t born in a golden palace, surrounded by the riches of the Jewish Kingdom. His mother did not give birth in a featherbed made from the cedars of Lebanon. The Savior came into this world in the middle of a damp, cool, and rocky cave, being warmed by the breath of the animals that dwelt there. This seems completely backwards doesn’t it? Why would the King of Kings, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, God Himself choose to be born in the midst of filth and darkness!?
