We're Being Invaded!

It came as a rumor the other day...we were being invaded, and I wondered what it meant. How could we be invaded? Should we alert the military? Should someone get on the hot‑line to the President?

Yes, the President should know...and a "hot‑line" to the whole world would be a great idea. But here was something unique, new, startlingly different. This was more like an invasion of the sun, or of the snow flakes, or of gravity itself. Armies cannot stop it. Radar cannot detect it. Love is coming down at Christmas, and God is invading His world!

It is hard to describe. It is sort of like standing out in the fields on a snowy day. You feel you are in the presence of magic. Something invades the world at Christmas, and before our very eyes, hard hearts become soft, and bleak souls become warm, and sinful people do strangely wonderful and holy things.

What is this strange magic that changes black to white and makes Scrooge‑like characters mellow and soften under the pressure of its power?

And the answer is "Love". For it was "love that came down at Christmas. Through the years, we have believed that only force can change the world, and we have mortgaged our children to have the strongest forces in the world. But about 2,000 years ago, God tried a new technique. He loved the world. Oh, of course, this wasn't new, for God had always loved His world, but it was something new about God that mankind had never really considered before.

Frankly, we are very slow to understand this kind of power. We touch it gingerly. We tend to drop it like a hot potato. It is like a power from another world. And we are not sure whether we can trust love to do the job.

We are spending trillions to experiment with every other kind of idea, and our science‑fiction stories are fantastic in their imaginations. But it is high time, that we as Christians really experiment with this thing called "Love", before something else comes in to destroy the world God has come to redeem.

Might be a good thing to have your home
invaded this year! Let it come...love, kindness,
forgiveness, good will, peace from on High!
Santa may have trouble getting here, but you
can be assured that if the invitation is extended,
the baby Jesus will arrive, and your life will
be happier, and more desirable to you and all
around you as you