I spent some time last night at Wonderful Wednesday Dinner here at Calvary and stayed after for Todd' advent study through some classic Christmas movies and their lessons they teach us about Christmas and life.
A lot of young children are at this study with their parents. We watched the last 30 minutes of Polar Express where Santa is revealed to all the kids and the main character is challenged to believe.
Just through observation I noticed something and wanted to make a comment. When Santa appeared in the video many young children start telling their parents "Santa, Santa, look mom, dad it's Santa!" Always a neat thing when kids put their favorite images with the knowledge they are gaining in life. However, it made me think.
What if we showed a video clip of Jesus being celebrated the same way Santa was being celebrated in Polar Express. During this Christmas season, would the children respond the same way they responded about Santa? Is this a problem or just what children are learning? I was intrigued and if anything encouraged to teach my children, whenever that happens in my life the importance of Jesus so that maybe they would be just as excited about Jesus as they are about Santa.
One more thing that a little girl taught me last night. Todd asked if anyone knew what believe meant. A little girl responded with "it's real." I thought that was an amazing response. If you believe, you are saying that thing you believe is real. That means as Christ believers, we are saying that Christ is real. Even more than that, if Christ is real then isn't that establish Him as reality.
Often we say, "Well the reality is, this world is hard and even though I believe in Christ it's just the reality of our world." I learned from this little girl last night that that isn't true. Christ is reality, because he is real. So the reality is not that this world is hard and even though we have Christ we just have to deal; the reality is Christ and this world is not as it was intended and God is in the business of restoring it back to reality.
Love well,
-A
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