A Christmas Song

For the Mighty One has done great things for me— holy is his name. – Luke 1:49

As we go about our Christmas shopping there is always Christmas music playing in the background; songs about dreams of a white Christmas, silver bells, Santa Claus, and a silent night long ago when a Savior was born. The songs playing in the stores at Christmas time are meant to be played softly in order to be unobtrusive, but loud enough to put us in the Christmas mood. The stores hope that the Christmas music will encourage us to buy more. But often as we stroll through the stores we tune out the Christmas music, it goes through one ear and out the other and we miss the message that the stores hope to convey.

In the first chapter of Luke sits a Christmas song sung by Mary. It sits unobtrusively as part of the Christmas Story. Placed there to remind us not only of what God did for Mary, but what God has done for all of us. But, often as we read the Christmas story, this song gets ignored. We tune it out because we would rather read the parts about the shepherds, the angels, and the wise men. But this song is too important to ignore. If we did, we would miss the message that this song conveys and that message is, “The Mighty One has done great things for me – holy is his name!”

Prayer: Thank you God for what you have done for me. Thank you for sending your Son to save me from my sins. Help me to remember why we celebrate Christmas. Amen.

Faith Tip: As you are out in the stores and your hear the Christmas music played over the speakers, remember Mary’s song and let it remind you of the many great things God has done for you.

Written by Pastor Aaron Anderson