One of the cheeriest parts of the Christmas season is all the Christmas lights and decorations that go up outside. The darkness of our days lengthens, but the dark nights are made lovely with a grand variety of colorful light displays. We used to walk around our neighborhood on these cold, dark nights with our children and rate the different displays. The rating system was from 1 to 10. The light display at our house received a 1 and all the other houses received scores that were relative to that. I wish I had a photo of the display we had for years and years, so you could see why ours was only rated a 1. Basically we used to put lights only on our balcony – some that went around the sides and top, and on the railing we had the kinds of lights that trail down like icicles. Our kids used to call it “The Gaping Maw.” My husband has bumped up our display since then and now drapes lights around most of the bushes in front of our house, as well as giving the balcony a better look.
So why do we all do this at Christmas time? Because it’s pretty? Nope. Because it makes us happy? Nope. Because we need to keep up with what the neighbors are doing? Definitely nope.
“The people who walk in darkness will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, the light will shine on them.”
“…that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
Every single house with its Christmas lights ablaze is proclaiming the gospel of Christ, the One who made light, the One who is light, the One who saves us out of the darkness of our sin into His marvelous light. All our Christmas lights at night are a loud hallelujah to Jesus.
I’ll probably delete this in the morning with a hallelujah!
Lynniebeemuseoday 