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The year draws to an end. Again, we are celebrating the birth of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Many people yearned to experience this year, of which they had specific expectations. Will this Christmas-fest be really different than all the others before?

Alone the heading can give us courage and hope: Everything Granted – nothing will be amiss – the Joy will be complete! This would be a wonderful celebration; no-one would come short! There, I am reminded;

This can only happen, if I invite also Jesus to this festival! Of course, not the Christ child, the “poor Baby”, that lays in the manger, no, but the grown-up Jesus, who leads His people for 2000 years and wants to be at home with His own, and this the whole year through, not only on the evening of Christmas!

I would like to feel the joy within me, like Solomon at that time in Psalm 72, when he announced the Prince of Peace for the world. God had acknowledged this prayer, when He let His Son appear on this earth: “Give the king thy judgements, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and the poor with judgement …. They shall fear thee as long as the sun and the moon endure, throughout all generations …. Yea, all the kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy… prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised. His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun; and men shall be blessed in him; all nations shall call him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen and Amen.”

Have we now realised that everything has been granted us?

Now if Jesus was our guest on the holy Christmas eve. Could we imagine, that He might put some questions to us? What are you celebrating? Who do you celebrate and How do you do it? What are we celebrating, O Lord?

We are celebrating the BIRTH of the FIRST NEW man since the fall of man, the Incarnation of God! And we celebrate the heavenly GIFTS, which YOU, with your birth brought to mankind. The most precious of them are: The Assurance, that we through you are saved for evermore: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life”. (John 3:36)

The Lust, the Hunger for God’s Word, the bread from Heaven, which You have brought to Bethlehem – the house of bread. How many of your words have become FOOD for the lost humanity: “I am the Good Shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine: (John 10:14) and “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” (John 10:27-28) The Love of the Father and the Son, which has been revealed to the repenting sinner: “And He said unto her: Thy sins are forgiven.” (Luke 7:48)

Who do we celebrate?

We celebrate YOU. OUR SAVIOUR! Through you are we reconciled with God; we may come close to Him, after we were so far away from Him. Because of our sin. We celebrate YOU, the PRESENT REDEEMER, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD, through whom we will become joint heirs in Your Kingdom!

How will we celebrate?

We celebrate with true and willing hearts, to serve You, our Lord, like the first disciples did (John 1:35-51) and that with Humble Hearts: “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts” (Peter 3:15) In the Love for the brothers and sisters and in striving after joint brotherly and sisterly communion, we celebrate our LORD.