Right Christmas with the Right Master

Right Christmas with the Right Master

LUKE 2:1-20

This passage helps us to know and to understand the foundation of right Christmas. The trees, the decorations, the lights, and the presents are only the signs of traditional Christmas. In reality, this type of traditional Christmas makes us rush around, push us to spend our money on useless things and perverts the real sense of Christmas into a major hassle. God is not interested in our outward celebrations instead He is interested in our having a right Christmas. This text tells us how to have a right Christmas. Having right Christmas will bring changes in our hearts and minds and it will allow Christmas to be a time of blessing and wonder instead of being a time of stress and mere celebration.

YOU NEED THE RIGHT MASTER (V: 1-20): Having right Master is to having right Christmas, Jesus is the reason for the season thus He is the centre of Christmas without Him our Christmas is nothing but mere celebration. The first celebrants had Jesus at the centre of their Christmas; He was the Master of their Christmas. First, In Luke 1:38 we see the drastic change in Mary’s life she moved from question to commitment. In this verse she makes a decision, “Be it done to me.” William Barclay writes that world’s commonest prayer is, “Thy will be changed.” But here Mary refused the world’s commonest prayer and prayed the world’s greatest prayer: “Thy will be done.” Second, God was the master of Joseph’s dream and desire. He had dream and desire to start his life with Mary but suddenly an angel appeared to him and explained him about God’s will in their lives Matthew 1:18-25. From that moment Joseph renounced all his desire and allowed God to be the Master of his plans. He yielded himself to take care of the expectant mother as best he could. When the time came and the baby was born, Joseph did the job of the father, he named the boy Jesus. Naming the child was the responsibility of the Father, Luke 1:63. He embraced the plan of God for his life; he yielded himself to the will of God to take care of the child as his own. In short Joseph gave up all his plans that he had and completely yielded himself to God’s plan to be the surrogate human father to the Messiah! Third, the wise men from east followed the star till they found Jesus, thus God was their Master all through their ways.

Let God be the Mater of our decisions, thought and actions not just in theory but in real-life and in our day-to-day living! God is not interested in claiming Him as our Lord instead He is more concerned whether we let Him to be the Lord in all the aspects of our life. It is sad to see those who claim that Jesus is Lord, live in open rebellion to His teachings. It seems that the Lordship of Jesus is simply just another title that he holds. 

Let us have right Master in this season to have right Christmas. Do you have a right Christmas? If not, commit yourself into His mighty hands and allow Him to be the Master of your will, plan, desire and your ways. Come to Jesus and let Him give you the best Christmas you ever had!