When Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, finally found his tongue, he used it very eloquently when he said:
"...for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet onto the path of peace."
Luke 1: 76-79
The true Christmas present is wrapped in these words for those who will receive him - and what a gift! When I see the faces of those Christians I knew who died this year and their loved ones who still mourn, I see their feet on the path of peace, guided by the tender mercy of our God. Death is not dark and scary, with rattling bones and worms that crawl. Just as the rising sun casts its beams across the darkness that was night, Jesus rose from the grave to bring eternal light to the dreary darkness of death. The curse has been broken. Fear not and have a merry Christmas!
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