A Christmas Miracle
Watching Hallmark movies during the Christmas season is one of my things. My mom and I sit and watch these improbable story lines. We must suspend belief and not question situations, because it takes the fun away. It takes the magic away.
On Saturday, we watched “A Christmas Miracle” starring Tamera Mowry-Housley. Do ya’ll remember her from the TV show “Sister, Sister” or her current daytime talk show “The Real”? In this movie, she is a recently divorced single mom who has moved from rural Georgia all the way to the big city of Denver, Colorado. She is an aspiring journalist and is ready to get her feet wet in the journalism world.
Her primary focus during the movie is to discover a Christmas miracle that she can tell the world about. She wants the miracle to be inspiring and give people hope. I could have made her search a lot simpler. The Christmas story of Jesus’ birth is a miracle that shouldn’t be ignored.
Caesar Augustus calls for a census around the time that Jesus is going to be born. Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem to register for the census. While there, Mary goes into labor and delivers our Salvation, her sweet baby Jesus. Herod decides to kill all male children two years old and under that were in Bethlehem and all its districts. He was trying to kill Jesus. He wanted to kill the world’s hope.
An angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream and tells him that it is not safe for his family to remain where they are. They must flee to Egypt and stay their until they hear from God again. Part of me feels like Joseph’s obedience is a Christmas miracle because ya’ll know I’m hard-headed. But Joseph didn’t hesitate to obey God’s commands. His obedience spares Jesus’ life and the life of all of us. A Christmas Miracle.
I see so much beauty and majesty in our Christmas story. As many times as it’s been told it never gets old. I know how the story ends, but I want to hear it time and time again. The miracle of Christmas makes life worth living. #wepreach
