“I’ll Be Home For Christmas” was recorded by Bing Crosby and it filled the soldiers with hope. “I’ll be home for Christmas, You can plan on me. Please have snow and mistletoe And presents by the tree. Christmas eve will find me where the love light gleams. I’ll be home for Christmas, If only in my dreams.” Those families and soldiers were experiencing tough, uncertain times and were looking for hope. We, too, are looking for hope.
Life changes and Christmases become different. Some people will be alone this Christmas. Some have lost loved ones. It seems hard to be filled with Christmas joy when things are hard. To have peace and joy we must focus on God. 1 Peter 2: 11 says our home is not in this world. “Friends, this world is not your home, so don’t make yourselves cozy in it..." In Ecclesiastes 12: 5, Solomon said, “Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.” He knew that God’s children’s forever home would go be with their Lord. Many of our loved ones now live in their forever home. We miss them terribly and things will never be the same, but, what a day of rejoicing it will be when we are all together again!
Think about Mary and Joseph and how far from home they were on that first Christmas. Nothing was familiar, they were tired from traveling so far and Mary was about to give birth. Their newborn lay in a feeding trough for animals but that stable was turned into their Christmas home! Jesus made the difference! Angels, shepherds, the three wise men, all, rejoiced! Later Jesus would have to leave His heavenly home and come to earth to live and die, for our sins, so we can have an eternal home with Him. Christmas means celebrating Jesus, so where He is, we can celebrate Him. If He is living in us, we are home! Romans 15: 13, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Merry Christmas!
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