Christmas Wasn't Always Cozy

Isn’t Christmas just the coziest of all the holidays. Its cozier than thanksgiving, July 4, Labor Day, New Year’s. What makes your Christmas cozy? How many of you wear matching pajamas? How many of you drink egg nog? How many of you think egg nog ruins Christmas? How many of you have the cozy ugly Christmas sweaters? Do you put one of those YouTube Yule log videos on constant loop on the TV? What is it about Christmas decorations? They make us feel cozy too, right? The tree, the lights, tinsel, the wreaths. No other holiday has its own music! Have you ever heard any Labor Day Carols! What is your favorite Christmas music? Raise your hands: Jazz? Disco? top 40? Rock-n-Roll? Country? What about Christmas rap? Is that your favorite? We like the gifts and what they say about who we give them to, and who gives them to us, it says someone is special. These are some of the reasons Christmas is the most merry, warm, cozy, blingy, musical, worshipful Holiday of them all. Of course, as followers of Jesus, we love Christmas for the real reason, a celebration of the birth of our Savior Jesus. But the 1st Christmas wasn’t any of those things. Christmas is so coo, we often forget how hard the 1st Christmas was. The 1st Christmas didn’t start merry, warm, blingy, musical or cozy. In fact, it was the exact opposite of all those.