So it was, that while they were there, the days were
completed for her to be delivered. (Luke 2:6 NKJV)
The cartoon titled How the Grinch Stole Christmas should be
renamed to How the Grinch failed to Steal Christmas. The Grinch did not want
Christmas to come to the people of Whoville. He was a secluded creature that
caused him to be miserable and in order to produce some gladness in his heart
he decided it could be accomplished by stealing the joy of others. Hmmm, sounds
like another miserable fellow I have heard of; the devil. He too would have
liked to keep Christmas from coming. Neither the Grinch nor the devil could
stop it however.
We know the Grinch is a storybook character but the devil is
real. The Grinch was converted by a mountain top experience; the devil will
never be converted. The devil is at work in the lives of people at this very
moment, maybe even yours, trying to stop the joy of Christmas from coming into their
hearts. Keeping our attention with shopping and busyness to distract our focus
from what Christmas really is. If the devil could have stopped God from coming
to the earth in person he would have. He tried to talk Joseph into putting Mary
away privately; that would have gotten her stoned for adultery. Mary summed up
Christmas in her statement, “His mercy is
on those who fear Him from generation to generation” (Luke 1:50 NKJV).
The old Grinch never stopped Christmas from coming, it came.
The old devil never stopped it from coming either; Jesus came! The devil will
try to steal your joy just as the Grinch tried to steal the Whos’ joy. The
Grinch found out that the joy of Christmas does not exist in things but in the
heart. You can have that joy in your heart today regardless of your
circumstances. Accept the Gift to you from God; Jesus. Allow the Christ of
Christmas to come into your heart and your life. Then you will be singing, Fah who for-aze! Dah who
dor-aze! Welcome Christmas! Christmas Day!
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