Light In The Darkness

This is a very famous passage in the book Isaiah. This really gives us a powerful understanding of the meaning of Christmas from the perspective of the first Testament. Tim Keller says it like this, ‘this is telling us that Christmas means an unexpected, ultimate light through the God-man which can only be received by grace.’ This passage tells us a couple things about the mystery of God in Christmas. I say mystery, because there is so much underlying the Christmas story that we don’t see, haven’t heard, or quite frankly, ignore. We see the wrapping paper and the bow. This event, the arrival of the light into the darkness was startling, mind-blowing, and quite literally took the world by surprise. Read: Isaiah 9:1-7