The Great Light and Sound Display
Robert Dawson
Luke 2:8-20
Tim Gay's family in LaGrangeville, NY, just broke their old 2014 Guinness World Record for the most Christmas lights used to decorate a home. Their old record was 601,736 lights. The new record is 686,811 lights. They are set to music and dance to over 200 songs! That is roughly 30 miles of wires linked together by over 8 miles of extension cords. People drive from all over to watch the light show. Last year 19 wedding proposals took place on their property.
What an incredible display of lights and sounds!!
However, that light and music show does not compare to the display of light and sound that unfolded before the eyes of a group of tired and sleepy shepherds that very first Christmas night.
Joseph and Mary had traveled from their home in Nazareth to Bethlehem, the city of David, their ancestral home. They were both descendants of the house and family of David, Israel's greatest King.
They made this long journey at a most inconvenient time. Mary was ready to give birth. They went because Caesar Augustus demanded a census be taken for the purpose of taxation.
While in Bethlehem, Mary did give birth but not in a hospital birthing suite. Not in a clean room with a comfortable bed but in a dirty smelly pen where the animals of fellow travelers were being kept.
What an ignoble birth!
The One who spoke with word everything into existence out of nothing was now crying unintelligibly in the arms of a young peasant girl. The One who had stood above the universe that He created and could measure it with the span of His hand was now sleeping in a feed trough. The One who had been robed in glory was now wrapped in strips of old cloth. Heaven's royalty had abandoned the splendor of heaven for the squalor of a stable.
No baby showers. No birth announcements. No Brahms's Lullaby played over hospital speakers to announce this baby's arrival. God, however, would not allow this night to ...
Robert Dawson
Luke 2:8-20
Tim Gay's family in LaGrangeville, NY, just broke their old 2014 Guinness World Record for the most Christmas lights used to decorate a home. Their old record was 601,736 lights. The new record is 686,811 lights. They are set to music and dance to over 200 songs! That is roughly 30 miles of wires linked together by over 8 miles of extension cords. People drive from all over to watch the light show. Last year 19 wedding proposals took place on their property.
What an incredible display of lights and sounds!!
However, that light and music show does not compare to the display of light and sound that unfolded before the eyes of a group of tired and sleepy shepherds that very first Christmas night.
Joseph and Mary had traveled from their home in Nazareth to Bethlehem, the city of David, their ancestral home. They were both descendants of the house and family of David, Israel's greatest King.
They made this long journey at a most inconvenient time. Mary was ready to give birth. They went because Caesar Augustus demanded a census be taken for the purpose of taxation.
While in Bethlehem, Mary did give birth but not in a hospital birthing suite. Not in a clean room with a comfortable bed but in a dirty smelly pen where the animals of fellow travelers were being kept.
What an ignoble birth!
The One who spoke with word everything into existence out of nothing was now crying unintelligibly in the arms of a young peasant girl. The One who had stood above the universe that He created and could measure it with the span of His hand was now sleeping in a feed trough. The One who had been robed in glory was now wrapped in strips of old cloth. Heaven's royalty had abandoned the splendor of heaven for the squalor of a stable.
No baby showers. No birth announcements. No Brahms's Lullaby played over hospital speakers to announce this baby's arrival. God, however, would not allow this night to ...
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