Never a Birth Announcement Like This One!
Don’t you love it when a friend or family member shares the good news “We are Expecting!” in a cute photo — long before the baby’s birth — and then is followed up a few months later by the BIG announcement to the world that their baby has arrived?
As cute as those birth announcements are, can you imagine a birth that a mere photo or card could not contain the grandeur and magnificence of this baby’s birth? Not even a baby born to England’s royal family provided this sort of announcement. This announcement was so colossal that all you had to do was look up at the sky and you saw it. And, that, my friends, is the way Father God, He Who created the heavens and the earth, and all that’s in it, would announce the birth of His BOY!
What a MASTER Plan! He flung ONE colossal star in the sky to let us know that He was giving us mere mortals the STAR OF THE SHOW! Oh, there were always plenty of stars that lit up the skies to declare His glory and His grand and majestic creation, but THIS night, He placed a brilliant, glorious STAR there that would point the way to the ONE TRUE LIGHT. All other stars in the sky, and all those who THINK they are “stars” on this earth, pale in comparison to that ONE TRUE STAR.
And this STAR, was also a travel guide that gave directions to the maji and led them to where THE STAR lived. Those Wise Men knew that this STAR was the promised gift from heaven. Yes, they brought gifts to Him to show their worship, but they went away KNOWING their gifts were insignificant to the GIFT He gave them. They received HOPE for their future, JOY for their journey, PEACE for their soul, and LOVE that exceeded anything or anyone.
And the foremost point of this post today is….. that ONE TRUE LIGHT shines ever so brightly for us — leading and guiding us. This world has plenty of darkness in it, but no worries — because THE STAR and LIGHT shines brighter than EVER. And, like the Wise Men leaving with greater gifts than they brought to Him, that HOPE, JOY, PEACE, and LOVE are our gifts, too, FREELY given, and as we stay close to the STAR’s brilliant LIGHT, and accept HIS gifts to us, we’ll NEVER be in darkness.
Let this song resonate in your heart and soul as we move into the most beautiful night of all nights! I guarantee you will get chills Join with me in watching this gorgeous rendition of “Angels We Have Heard on High” (Gloria in Excelsis Deo).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5mdybeyLVc