“Will it have made any difference?”

“And He came to His own people, but His own people did not receive Him.”    — John 1:11

It ‘s Christmas Eve.  Another Christmas season will soon be a memory.  The shopping will be done.  The Christmas parties will be over. [There’s still New Years Eve!]  While the world barely notices Jesus during Christmas time, we who are in Christ have celebrated the birth of Jesus for yet another year.

A good question at this point might be, “Will it have made any difference?”  I mean after all, it is one thing to celebrate Jesus’ birth; it is another thing altogether to live to emulate His life and follow Him in His death.

Let it not be said of we who are called by His name, that He came to us again this Christmas, and when the holiday was over, we failed to receive Him.