Fear Of Loneliness

Others fear death

Others fear death. The stats on death, folks, are pretty overwhelming. One out of one die. We are all going to die. We live like we are not going to die, though. That is what is so funny, but we are going to die. All of us are slowing rotting away. Some will die next year, ten years from now, twenty years, thirty years, fifty years if you eat bean curd and drink carrot juice. We are all dying. Some of us live protected-type lives. We go, "I can"t take that risk. I can"t fly on that plane, or I can"t drive in that car. I can"t go out at night because what if something happens to me? What if I die?" Some here are also wrapped in another type of fear. Some of us fear loneliness. This could be the first Christmas season you are spending alone, because of a death or maybe a divorce. It is tearing you apart. Again, on the outside, you look fine. You are packaged. You are wrapped. Everything looks hunky dory. Down deep, it is eating your lunch.

So a lot of people were wrapped up in a lot of stuff during that first Christmas. But someone else was wrapped up in something, God. During this first Christmas, the Bible says God was wrapped in skin, in epidermis. Let me stop here and press the pause button and ask you something. Isn"t this weird? I mean, God packaging his Son in skin. What weird wrapping. What peculiar packaging. That"s kind of strange. Let"s be honest. Would you expect God to wrap himself up like that? God, wrapped in skin; then on top of that, Mary wraps him in a bunch of old barn blankets, swaddling clothes. On top of that, he is placed in a feeding trough and he is surrounded and wrapped in manure-laden hay? Some of you right now are going, "Ooh, don"t even go there, Ed, come on. I want the Christmas card Jesus. I want the clean Jesus. I want the Rembrandt Jesus. Not the raw Jesus."

Well, friends, Jesus came to this earth and was born in a dark and dirty environment. Sexperiment tells us that we try to sterilize Christmas. We try to westernize Christmas. We try to Martha Stewartize Christmas. Jesus was born in a very ugly environment. Peculiar packaging. A weird way to wrap something. Speaking of packaging, we love to package stuff. Have you ever asked yourself this question when you are buying something for someone? Does the packaging match the product? Pretty good question. I have some examples.

by: Ed Young Jr.

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