December 18th & 22nd & 24th
And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years
—Genesis 1:14b NIV
“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars.”
—Luke 21:25a NIV
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people[we] are without excuse.
—Romans 1:20 NIV
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
—Psalm 19:1-4 NIV
O Holy night. The starts are brightly shining.
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”
—Matthew 2:1-2 NIV
1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.
—Revelation 12:1-5 NIV
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
—Psalm 19:1 NIV
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Next Steps:
1. God has my attention, and I see Jesus and invite him in my life.
2. Like the composer of O HOLY NIGHT, I want to be moved (or moved again) by the night of our Savior’s birth.