Following the “most wonderful time of the year” comes the days after. TC and I always joke that we get sad when Christmas is close because we don’t want it to be over! It’s like the day after your birthday. You go from joyful and “I am the QUEEN” back to normal in a matter of 24 hours.
All the anticipation, the wonder, the joy and then it’s over.
This year as I was reading my advent devotional I came across this short little truth that was tucked away in the story of Jesus’ birth.
We often talk about how radical it is that the angels came to the shepherds because they were the most unlikely and lowliest of people. They were simply doing their mundane task of tending their sheep when the most glorious of angels appeared to them. The angel didn’t appear to a king or an emperor, not to a Rabbi or to any kind of “leader”. Just shepherds.
You know the story, (Luke 2) you had shepherds watching their sheep and an angel of the Lord appeared to them and told them what was happening over in Bethlehem. So they made their way over to see the Savior of the world. They were in awe of what their eyes captured as they approached the King. All that they had been told was true. God broke through their everyday tasks with this truth that would change everything.
Luke 10:20 “And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.”
But then, after they had seen the savior of the world, they returned home. Their lives were turned upside down because of what they had just experienced. This did not change who they were, though. They went back to their mundane tasks, but they went back changed, glorifying God.
Maybe mundane is not that bad after all.
Maybe the days after Chirtmas can be beautiful and joyful even if we are heading back to mundane.
Maybe the birth of Jesus should still lead us to glorifying and praising God as we return to the mundane.
So maybe today you are heading back to work, or practice, or getting the house cleaned after the Santa bomb went off. Maybe you are hugging little ones, or helping a loved one, or filling out college scholarships, or grading papers. Let’s let the glory and praise in our mundane make our mundane Holy.
Let's be forever changed by the Savior who came, EMMANUEL.
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31
Merry days after Christmas! CHEERS:)