Hey guys! This article is one of my very own, and it is coming off the following video. I give you, Light of Christmas, by Owl City, and featuring one of my favorite Christian singers, TobyMac.

I don’t have much to say about the first four lines:

 

Build a snowman with the wind at his back

Got the day planned, with presents to wrap.

Fight the windchill with all of my friends.

‘Cause it’s Christmas time again.

 

The next four are him expressing joy in giving. It is part of the Christmas season to give, and in the kids’ point of views, to get.

The next part is TobyMac telling a short story of a man outside a mall, and he’s reminding people that his Christmas isn’t going to be about him. And that is one example of the light of Christmas, shining through. The next few lines are Mac saying that the smallest thing could make someone’s day, and maybe someone’s Christmas. Then Owl City is just saying that he can’t wait for the big winter holiday, but the real catch (the one that made me pick this specific song) is that he says that he “finally figured out what Christmas is all about.”

And that’s Jesus. The birth of the King of kings was a mark in history, Heaven came to earth, and we knew it. We know it now. That’s why we have B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini, which means “in the year of our Lord.” I call that significant; but I’ll get to that later). Some nonreligious people say B.C.E. (Before Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era), but most people call it B.C. and A.D.

Christmas may have giving gifts (or receiving them, depending on who you are) and spending time with family, and maybe vacations to other places. But we give gifts at Christmas because on that day, over two thousand years ago, God gave us the greatest gift of all: His Son. And He came to spend time with His children, and to make His family grow in ways we will never comprehend.

Isn’t that amazing?

And that Son would grow up to be the Light of the world, and he would give himself up to be crucified on the cross in our place, so that, in the end, we can live with God for eternity in Heaven. Oh, such love that has never before been shown to our dirty, broken world. A dirty, broken world made new. All of creation watched in awe as the Son of Man and the Son of God came to the earth to perform miracles beyond our wildest dreams, and, in the end, be the one and only Lamb that could give us life.

Oh, what love.

 

The light of Christmas is a big thing, because without the Light, we wouldn’t have Christmas anyway, would we? Take some time to think about what you can do to be a light in someone’s Christmas season. Go and be a light, and let the Light of the World guide you.