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Christ IS King! Well, here we are in the Christmas season. Many of us live with the memories
of Christmas past, of trees and presents, of carry-ins and cheery cute Christmas plays and
TV shows. Yes, here I am again talking about all the things that are dear to us that
really have nothing to do with the celebration of a Savior’s birth. Let me tell you I
enjoy these things as well as anyone. Yes, I get into the Thanksgiving turkey and the
pleasure of seeing my grand kids open packages. This is a magical time of year, no, a
blessed time when we celebrate the (miracle) birth of THE KING. Here is a thought from CS
Lewis on the miracle of Christmas (quoted from a sermon by Ray Steadman)
C.S. Lewis has a comment on this that is pertinent to our
study:
If we open such books as Grimm's Fairy Tales or the Italian
epics, we find ourselves in a world of miracles so diverse that they can hardly be
classified. Beasts turn into men and men into beasts or trees. Trees talk, ships become
goddesses, and a magic ring can cause tables richly spread with food to appear in solitary
places. Now if such things really happened, they would, I suppose, show that nature was
being invaded. But they would show that she was being invaded by an alien power. The
fitness of the Christian miracles, and their difference from these mythological miracles,
lies in the fact that they show an invasion by a power which is not alien. They are what
might be expected to happen when nature is invaded, not simply by a god, but by the God of
nature, by a power which is outside nature's jurisdiction, not as a foreigner but as a
Sovereign. They proclaim that he who has come is not merely a king but the King---nature's
King and ours!
Indeed the KING HAS COME!
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