A little Christmas tree?
I have a tiny living room on a normal day, but when you start to put up Christmas decorations and pile up gifts, the floor suddenly looks pretty crowded. So, when we went out to cut down our Christmas tree, I asked for a small tree this year. It seems like we always forget that we don’t have cathedral ceilings when we pick out a tree in the woods. With nothing but blue skies above that spruce outside, it doesn’t look very big, so we cut it down and haul it home. At home, we inevitably have to cut off a few feet from the base in order to fit it inside.
Once the tree was up, the lights strung and lit and packages arranged around the base, I sat to enjoy the view. The boys were watching a football game on the TV, but I could only see a corner of the screen from my chair with that tree blocking my view. Pretty soon, my husband was complaining about putting the tree upstairs in the living room when the tree just takes over the room and there’s no space for it.
That Christmas tree invades the room. You can’t avoid it and it gets in the way of normal life. Shouldn’t Christmas do that to us, though? Jesus becoming human and dwelling among us…shouldn’t that invade our lives? Christ in the center of our everyday busyness taking over and blocking out the things of the world?
I don’t care if my tree is too big for my little living room; it’s a great reminder of how I want Jesus to take over my life. I want Him to be in the center of it all and to overpower everything else in my life. His presence in my life should be overwhelming, not just taking center stage, but taking over my whole life. I want His presence to be inescapable.
That’s what Christmas is all about; Jesus coming down and invading our lives. Amen?
Heather
Amen, Heather! He should take over and invade everything. Beautiful word picture!!
Amen, Heather. Yes, I was Jesus to invade my life and take it over.