John 1:14; Matthew 1: 23 Christmas Greetings to You and Your Family. Christmas is probably the most widely celebrated holiday around the world every year. It is the only Christian celebration that is also a secular holiday, generating more attention, more excitement, and more anticipation than any other special day. During the Christmas season, billions of people set aside their normal routines, to decorate their homes, send out greeting cards, buy gifts, go to Christmas parties, attend church services, watch Christmas specials on television, and travel long distances to visit with families and friends. Christmas sights and sounds fill the air everywhere, you can’t miss it. This year however, there will be strict limitations to our Christmas celebrations, due to the coronavirus outbreak. During this time when we are faced with a global pandemic, civil unrest, political polarization, this is a good time to focus our attention on Jesus Christ. Christmas 2020 is filled with all sorts of grief. Some are grieving the loss of loved ones, others are grieving lost routines, and lost traditions. However, Christmas is not cancelled. This Christmas offers us the opportunity to rethink and re-imagine many of our long-standing traditions, and to celebrate Christmas with simplicity, while focusing more on the real meaning of Christmas. Most people celebrate Christmas; but so few understand what and whom it commemorates. It is one of my most favourite times of the year because it is about the birth of Jesus, Immanuel, God with us, the promised Messiah, who came to save His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).
In John 1:14 we read: “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” This verse is the most concise biblical statement of the Incarnation, and therefore one of the Scripture’s most significant verses. The four words with which this verse begins, “The Word was made flesh,” expresses the reality, that in the Incarnation, the second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, took on humanity; that is, God became man.