Home For Christmas

It was during WWII that singer Bing Crosby released a song, as if written from a “G.I.” far away from home at Christmas, it shot up the music charts and has remained a Christmas classic ever since. Part of the song says,

“Christmas Eve will find me

Where the love light gleams

I’ll be home for Christmas

If only in my dreams

 

How well I remember Christmas 1968 as I was flying over the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. Armed Services Radio broadcasted Christmas music to try and alleviate our homesickness. It is hard being away from home during the holidays. One of the great ironies of the bible is that almost everyone in the first Christmas wasn’t home for the holidays. The angel Gabriel left heaven to announce to Mary that she would be the mother of Jesus. Joseph and Mary left their home in Nazareth and traveled to Bethlehem to give birth to their Baby. And of course, the Magi were a long way from home to see the newborn King.

Most important, the baby Jesus Himself was far from His heavenly home at the first Christmas. But there was a reason that all these were far from home – it was so we could find  our way back to our true home with God. As wonderful as it is to be home at Christmas there is still something in us that tells us we are not home yet. The Bible says we are strangers and pilgrims of earth.

 
As we celebrate  the first coming of Jesus don’t forget the fact that we’re not yet in our true and eternal home. So, keep focused on His Second Coming and your eternal, heavenly home.