About a Christmas-like day�

Matthew 2:19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead." 21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."(NIV)

Perhaps you have heard or read the more things change the more they stay the same. In the darkness invading the Christmas story from Matthew, we see at least a temporary end to the dark madness of Herod. Prophets had foretold of Christ's birth. Prophets had even given details as to names of towns in the Christmas story. In your life, and in the life of the world there will come an end to every madness. However, the madness invading the land of Christ's birth, with the accompanying slaughter of babies, did come to an end on a temporary basis. Every madness comes to an end. Any kind of madness in your life, no matter its source, will come to an end. Although the madness lurking about Christ did eventually take His life, His life was not permanently taken away. The sin madness nailing Christ to the Cross won only a temporary victory. Sinful evil nailing Christ to the cross won a victory lasting only three days. On the third day, there was a blast of God's power into Christ's tomb and Christ was alive again. Likewise, the power of the Christmas spirit is the spirit has never been snuffed out. No matter how much of the Grinch or Scrooge the world wants to conjure up, the power of Christmas will never ever die. When all things have been worked out, when evil has taken a last and final shot, there will be a great Light coming upon the clouds from the East. There will be a figure of a man in the sky. There will be, at that fateful moment, an eternal victory over the stench we find bringing so much pain and suffering to the world. On the final morning, there will be joy, peace, and celebration for those who know Him. For those who know Him, the world will see a Christmas-like day as no other.