Tim Morrow

In our culture we are inundated with “announcements.” We recently went through an election where winners were announced. New products are always being announced to us as the latest and greatest. Winners of sports teams are announced. Since this is Christmas-time, we have announcements of shopping season, announcements of days until Christmas, and of course our kids and grandkids “announcing” what they would like for Christmas.

Let us not forget during this Christmas season the greatest announcement of all. In fact, it is the very reason there is a Christmas holiday. Luke 2 is what we Christians consider the “Christmas Story,” think Linus in “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” In this chapter we have what I believe is the greatest announcement any human has ever heard. That is when the shepherds were given the announcement by the angel that, “... unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” 

What a shock this must have been to the shepherds, and how they were undoubtedly amazed at the pronouncement.  

During this Christmas time, we too should be filled with amazement and wonder when we read once again that we have been given “a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”

This announcement we read about must never get old to us as Christians. It reminds us of the truth once again of the greatest gift God has ever given, his own son to save us from our sins. Christ came, as Peter writes, “that he might bring us to God.” Now this is something to announce. As Christians this is something to rejoice about, not only at Christmas, but for this day and forevermore.  

Merry Christmas!

(Tim Morrow is the pastor of New Life Church in Powell.)