12.31-If you feel accused of things and some are not true
12.31
Christmas is about humans being accused by
the great accuser, satan, saying to us we are not worthy of God’s love and grace.
Christmas says, humble, common people are
worth the Son of God becoming human to be our Savior.
The blog Soundings Has this about the movie
Home Alone
The best scene in the movie, in my opinion,
is when, alone and afraid, Kevin slips into a dark church where a children’s’
choir is rehearsing for Christians Eve and old man Marley, who is also there,
alone and afraid in the dark, slips into the pew beside Kevin. Their
conversation eventually gets around to their families, and old man Marley tells
Kevin that he’s there listening to that children’s choir rehearse because it
was the only way that he could hear his granddaughter sing. You see, old
man Marley hadn’t murdered his family, they were estranged, they hadn’t talked
to each other for years. Old man Marley lived his life in the pain of
this isolation, and poignantly he told Kevin, “You
can say hello when you see me. You don’t have to be afraid. There’s a lot
of things going around about me, but none of it’s true.”
These are the words of someone who’s been pushed away and who just wants to
belong somewhere, to somebody. There’s Gospel in these words. Paul
told the Ephesians that Jesus Christ came to specifically bring people who felt
pushed away back into the circle of God’s care and concern. “He is our peace… He broke down the barrier of
the dividing wall… He came and preached peace to those who were far away”
(2:13; 17).
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