Each year at Christmas time, we hear Bing Crosby crooning his Christmas classic, "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas." A friend of mine said one year, "I'm not dreaming of a 'white Christmas.' I'm dreaming of a 'right Christmas.'" To tell you the truth, I have never seen a "white Christmas" in our part of the country, and neither have I seen a completely "right Christmas."
What would it take to make a "right Christmas? At a bare minimum it would be for us to go to Bethlehem for the birth of a baby. That's what brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem. Joseph had to go to Bethlehem to enroll for the Roman taxation, but he brought with him Mary from their home in Nazareth for the birth of her child which they both knew was very close. Luke 2:6-7 records, "And so it was that while they were there the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn" (Luke 2:6-7). Most of the folks in Bethlehem missed seeing Jesus that first Christmas. We must not repeat their error this season.
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