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Day 28

Hallelujah, Light Has Come

Read: John 1:4-5

Have you noticed that our world is dying?

• How many house plants have you seen turn brown?
• How many of your kids’ gold fish have you had to flush down the toilet?
• How many trees in your yard could not weather the storm?
• How many pets have come and gone?
• How many funerals have you attended?

We live in a world where everyone and everything is dying. This is one of the impacts of living in a fallen world, and it causes much sorrow on its inhabitants.

Additionally, we live in a broken world:

• What was the life span of your last computer?
• How often do you have to change light bulbs?
• How many roofs have you replaced due to weather damage?

Things once shiny and new are breaking all the time. Lights that once shone brightly are extinguished with alarming frequency.

But . . . at Christmas time, we celebrate life and not death. At Christmas time, we celebrate light and not darkness. Why? Because of Jesus.

Listen to John 1:4-5: “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” This verse tells us that Jesus came as a giver of life, not a dispenser of death. In a world of death, Jesus brings eternal life! The Bible tells us that one day Jesus will return to the earth again and set up a kingdom that will never end, filled with people who are eternally alive, and inhabiting a world that is protected from decay. Why? Because “In Him was life.”

So, to all of us living in a dying and broken world, there is good news of great joy this (and every) Christmas season. Jesus’ birth brought Life and Light into the world. Faith in Christ is more than a decision to follow a new religion. . . it is a step out of our dying and broken destiny into an eternally living and luminous future. We have a living and bright future because Jesus will sustain it. That is why we can sing today’s song aloud, “Hallelujah, Light Has Come!”

Hallelujah, Light Has Come - Barlowgirl

Heaven sent you to me.
All the world’s been praying.
Who will save?
But who am I?
That here tonight
I hold the One,
Who'll bring us life.

Hallelujah, we've been found!
A child is born to save us now.
Hallelujah, light has come!
A Savior who will set us free.
A Promise for those who believe.

Do you hear the Angels,
Sing for You, my baby?
Men and kings have come to
Bow to You.
But here in my arms,
So close to me,
The son of God
Now all can see.

Hallelujah, we’ve been found!
A child is born to save us now, Jesus.
Hallelujah, light has come!
A Savior set us free.

So, praise to God on high.
He has heard our cry.
So, praise to God on high.
He has heard our cry.

Hallelujah, we've been found!
Hallelujah, we've been found!
A child is born to save us now, Jesus.
Hallelujah, light has come!
A Savior who will set us free.
A Promise for those who believe.