This is Love

Christmas brings our deepest longings to the surface. In the middle of joy and exhaustion, celebration and grief, many of us are quietly asking the same question: am I really loved as I am right now? This Eve of Eve message reminds us that Christmas is not about pretending everything is fine. It is about God meeting us exactly where we are.

Drawing from 1 John 4, we see that God's love is not distant or abstract. Love comes close in the person of Jesus Christ. God sent his Son into the world so that we might live through him. Christmas is not asking us to try harder or clean ourselves up. It is inviting us to receive the life, forgiveness, and love God has already given and extend that to those around us.