Christmas Ornaments
I live alone now since my wife’s death two years ago.
As I decorated my Christmas tree this year, the sight of precious old family ornaments reminded me of an even more precious truth. In and of themselves, our ornaments are not very valuable things. Made of simple materials, many of our tree ornaments are worn with age and show signs of breakage. But as they hang on our tree, our home is brightened year after year!
You see, these objects are special only because of whose they are - ours - and special because of the tree.
Likewise, in and of itself, humanity could rank fairly low in terms of value. Morally fallen, sinful, alienated from God and from each other, man is indeed "broken." But we are actually valuable, because of whose we are, God’s property, and because of the tree - not a Christmas tree, but a wooden cross on which was hung the innocent one called Christ. Jesus personally paid for each individual, and the first installment began at Bethlehem's manger.
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