Cosmic Christmas

Have you ever had one of those Christmas seasons that leave you feeling further away from God rather than closer? I have, but not this year. This year I feel really connected to God and to Jesus. Part of what has helped is my study of the Christmas story from the cosmic vantage point of Revelation Chapter 12. If you have a moment read the first few verses. I have been meditating on three “lost” symbols in verses 1-5.

One of the lost symbols is the woman (likely Mary) who gives birth to Jesus. The woman represents all of us who seek to birth to anything redemptive in this world. The second symbol is the dragon who represents evil. The dragon sweeps stars out of the ski and seeks to devour the baby. Any time we seek to birth something good in this world or live in the light we will find a dragon seeking to devour our “baby” or snuff out the light in our souls. The third lost symbol is Jesus. We have heard the Christmas story so many times that we have lost Jesus in it. We have lost the awe that comes when we really “get” what God did for us in that Christmas baby. Jesus came to show us God, to destroy the virus of corruption that has spread throughout our world and to show us how much God loves us. We know how much someone loves a person or idea by how much they are willing to sacrifice for it and in Jesus we see God make the ultimate sacrifice for us. He was born to die.

The cosmic Christmas story is not the pastoral, pastel, precious moment story most of us know. It is more like an action/adventure/drama/horror film. But it feels truer to the way my life has been this year and therefore it has really connected me to God.

Read it and let me know what you think.