Backstage on Christmas Eve
I come … to do thy will, O God (Hebrews 10:7).
All over our world, churches large and small are presenting Christmas plays and pageants. What amazes me is how much goes on backstage before the current ever rises. There are props to be made, costumes to be sewn, music to be rehearsed, lines to be memorized, and so much more.
On this Christmas, with all the attention on Bethlehem and the manger, think for a minute about what was transpiring backstage … in heaven, that is. Our Lord was saying farewell to His Father. Laying aside His glory, He stepped over the portals of heaven into a smelly Eastern stable.
And what would He say to the Father as He departed, when the curtain rose on the greatest event in human history? I go to do Your will.
That for which we have been waiting and to which the prophets had been pointing was coming and for the express purpose of doing the Father's will.
CODE WORD: BACKSTAGE
All of heaven was looking over those portals that starlit night in Bethlehem. The fullness of the time (Galatians 4:4) had come. Although most on earth were oblivious, those in heaven were watching and worshiping. Remember what is onstage is not always the whole story.
Lord, to think of what You left to come to give me life moves me to want to do Your will.
The Christmas Code by O.S. Hawkins
All over our world, churches large and small are presenting Christmas plays and pageants. What amazes me is how much goes on backstage before the current ever rises. There are props to be made, costumes to be sewn, music to be rehearsed, lines to be memorized, and so much more.
On this Christmas, with all the attention on Bethlehem and the manger, think for a minute about what was transpiring backstage … in heaven, that is. Our Lord was saying farewell to His Father. Laying aside His glory, He stepped over the portals of heaven into a smelly Eastern stable.
And what would He say to the Father as He departed, when the curtain rose on the greatest event in human history? I go to do Your will.
That for which we have been waiting and to which the prophets had been pointing was coming and for the express purpose of doing the Father's will.
CODE WORD: BACKSTAGE
All of heaven was looking over those portals that starlit night in Bethlehem. The fullness of the time (Galatians 4:4) had come. Although most on earth were oblivious, those in heaven were watching and worshiping. Remember what is onstage is not always the whole story.
Lord, to think of what You left to come to give me life moves me to want to do Your will.
The Christmas Code by O.S. Hawkins