Mystery of Christmas

Marianne's reading at the Christmas eve Carol service at St Mark's


24 December 2010.

John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.

Philosophy has to do with man's understanding and knowledge, theology has to do with man's faith and belief. When we come to what it means to be a Christian we need to realise that we are dealing with a mystery and there is no answer to a mystery. We have faith in what we believe and if we are asked the basis of it with regards to man' understanding we realise that we cannot remove all doubt. It is because of that doubt however that we have faith, the more faith we have the deeper our belief becomes. Yet as Christians we believe in a God who became one of us, was born like us, lived like us, was condemned by others like us, died, and because of that, we will be raised just like Him to eternal life.

We also are not left in doubt, our God became the Living Word and that Word was God, and these Words are recorded in Holy Scripture to help us overcome the doubts that assail us in times of struggle. We are not alone, God is with us, and when we seem to loose faith, when times are hard, we do not turn to human philosophy, but we turn to theology to bring us to that place of faith and belief in our Redeemer and Saviour. Christmas reminds us of this, and we should keep this in mind.

Be encouraged today to place your faith and belief in God and not in philosophy.

 David

Point to ponder: Belief in Jesus Christ is a mystery.

Question to consider:  Don’t you love the mystery of Christmas?

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