I imagine every kid growing up has his favorite Christmas story. There was Frosty the Snowman and the Peanuts, of course. But my personal favorite back then probably was Rudolph. For some reason, I alway took a liking to Yukon Cornelius and the Abominable Snowman (or Bumble, as Yukon so affectionate named him).
Now that I've grown up a little, I have some other personal favorite Christmas stories. (I hesitate to call them 'stories', because that term could give someone the impression that they aren't necessarily true). These 'accounts' are found in God's Word. I love the parts in Luke where we learn of the angels and the shepherds and the wise men. But my favorite one is found in Philippians, in the kenosis passage in chapter two:
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
This is the essence of the Christmas story.
Have a Merry Christmas.
Mark
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