God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan’s pow’r
When we were gone astray
O tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy.
Whether it was December 25th or one of the other 364 days in the year, it is important to “Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day! Why? He came to ‘save us all from Satan’s power when we were gone astray.”
Since the days of Adam, each generation has gone astray in its own way and our is no different, would you agree? Earlier today I saw a post with this quote describing the human condition –
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
D.A. Carson
I’ don’t know about you, but the quote resonates with me because I have personal experience to back it up. When we drift, we drift away, to toward the holiness of God and every other point he makes above.
But there is good news “of tidings of comfort and joy” found in the birth, life and resurrection of Jesus Christ!
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:4-5
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