A Christian application I always think of when I see Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol is the fact that believers in Christ should always wake up and go about every day with that same kind of joy and peace that flooded Ebenezer Scrooge after he was visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future – he woke up Christmas morning and realized everything was okay and he was delivered from a horrible fate: an untimely death!
Similarly, we had a horrible eternity coming if we had not received Christ, but we were delivered from it to get eternity in heaven with Jesus, which is all by grace and which we never deserved. 2 Corinthians 1:9-10 says, "we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us." Also in Ephesians 2:4-6 it says, "But God who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus."
Unfortunately, as believers (and I’ll be the first to admit it) when we fall into the old sin nature or the flesh we start grumbling, complaining, murmuring, worrying, trusting in ourselves, or even get cold in our Christian walk, and we forget what Christ has done for us. We should keep our hearts and minds focused on Jesus, especially on His person (or who He is) and His love, grace, and mercy for us.
So keep Christ first this Christmas and share Christ always with others!
