Commentary for Christmas Eve
Could
anyone love you more? God is born in a barn. The angels sing, not to
their God or His mother, but to the shepherds. He comes to the lowly
who have nothing to give Him, who only want to receive. Nothing must
mar this lowliness that exalts the greatness of God’s love.
It’s
worth noting, if only in passing, that the angels rejoice! We might
have expected them to be angry or at the very least to weep. He whom
they love perfectly has humbled Himself completely in order to suffer
and die for fallen mankind.
We
might have expected their hearts to ache, or even to ask, How come
for them and not for our fallen fellow angels?
But
there is none of that. So perfectly is their will in harmony with the
will of God that they rejoice beyond measure that He whom they
worship and adore has come down from heaven just for you, just for
me! “Let us hasten to Bethlehem and see this thing that has
happened, which the Lord has told us about!”
Don’t
talk about bringing Him a present—not today. Today He is the only
present! Just receive! Just sing!
(From Daniel M. Deutschlander, Planning Christian Worship, Year B)
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