Re-reading Luke 2 in preparation for next Sunday I couldn't help but be struck by something I'd missed before. The chapter opens as if it is all about Augustus Caesar's glory when actually the chapter is overwhelmingly overtaken by God's glory. The events of Christ's coming are first and foremost about God being glorified by Zechariah and Elizabeth then the angels then the shepherds and final by Simeon and Anna. It poses a question do we think of Christmas too much as being about us? Even in Christian circles the focus is often on what God has come to do for us in sending Jesus. What he actually does is send his son so that he gets the glory he is due from his people who are refusing to give it to him.
Christmas is overwhelmingly about God being glorified will we make it the same?
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