Notice where the wise men didn’t find
Christ: In the business world. Every motel in Bethlehem was sold out with a ‘No
vacancy’ sign. Not much has changed, eh? Thirty percent of all retail sales in
department stores take place over the Christmas-time holidays. Fifty percent of
all parties are held during Christmas and New Year. One out of every ten
gallons of alcohol is sold then too. Clearly, Jesus is good for business. The
trouble is, we prefer the myth to the Master. We want a Santa but not a
Saviour. We want the fairy tale but not the fact. What fact? That Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners (1 Timothy 1:15). The story’s told of a
child who was chosen to play the innkeeper in the Christmas nativity, telling
Mary and Joseph that there was no room for them at the inn. But on the night of
the big event, he stood onstage, looked into the faces of the audience, froze
in fear, then smiled and announced, ‘I’m not supposed to do this, but come on
in anyway!’ The hymnist wrote, ‘Room for pleasure, room for business, but for
Christ the crucified; not a place where He can enter, in the heart for which He
died.’ Instead of ending this Christmas exhausted, disappointed, and in debt,
invite Jesus into your life. You may be looking back with regret on some bad
decisions you’ve made this year, but making Jesus your Lord and Saviour this
Christmas is the best decision you’ll ever make.(
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