December 2024

Christmas is in the air with Christmas carols being played in retail stores and on the radio, Christmas ornaments adorning houses. Christmas decorations and stockings are hanging everywhere, but the heart for most houses and office buildings is the Christmas tree. The smell from live trees fills the house with a beautiful aroma as gifts are laid so neatly under it bringing joy to all who see it, especially little children.

When it comes time to select a Christmas tree everybody wants the perfect tree on which to hang Christmas lights and beautiful ornaments. When it is adorned with the right decorations the Christmas tree is the most beautiful of all decorations. But, it’s hard to find the perfect tree; the one that is the right size, height, and width.

Christmas just isn’t Christmas without a Christmas tree. But, you know, as beautiful as some Christmas trees are, as immaculate as some of the brand name artificial trees are, you will not find a perfect Christmas tree. I don’t care how much you pay for it or what you put on it, it will have a deficiency somewhere.

Maybe that’s because we are looking at the wrong tree when it comes to the perfection. The perfect Christmas tree that I’m talking about this morning is not found in any store, or on any lot. It’s not in Rockefeller Center or on the White House lawn.

There is a perfect Christmas tree, and the only place to find it is on a hill far away in a place called Calvary.

It'stwo pieces of wood in the form of a cross. It didn’t have lights on it, but, it did hold the Light of the world! That’s what makes it the perfect tree.

We can face tomorrow because of what Jesus came to do on this tree. I love this tree, the perfect Christmas tree. 

Glen

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