December 7, 2006
The Unknown God at Christmas
We all worship something. Some people are simply aware of who/what they worship and others are not. Christmas is a time of unbridled worship of many things - parties, people, spending, singing, technology, family - the list goes on and on...
Christmas is also a time that evokes every extreme of emotion and experience as well - from loneliness/despair to joy, from hunger to gluttony, from selfless giving to fist fights over the last Play Station on the shelf. But Chistmas is also a time where we can point to an unknown God for so many in the world in which we live.
In Acts 17:16-31, the Apostle Paul addresses a culture that knew very little of the living God that he served. He sees their altars to "an unknown god" and begins to connect with them about who the one true, living God really is. Christmas in so many ways has become an altar to an "unknown God" - but what better time to point people to the God who created them, who loves them, and sent his Son that we might have a personal relationship with this God.
A couple of years ago a local talk show asked the question... "Is there still room for Jesus in our modern day Christmas?" It's a good question. One that can give us many good conversations this Christmas as we point people to Christ.
As we see nations in turmoil around the world - in Chad, Sudan, Iraq, and so many other places - the words of this passage give such encouragement and hope... "God's purpose in all of this was that the nations should seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him - though he is not far from any one of us." (Acts 17:27)
I pray that the people of all nations would feel their way to the unknown God this Christmas.
Posted by Bruce Enns at December 7, 2006 11:28 AM
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