O Come Let Us Adore Him

I know we’re in the middle of the busy holiday season and it’s not the best time to ask you to stop and read. There are gifts to buy, cookies to bake, and countless events to attend. But maybe that’s exactly why the three minutes it will take you to read this blog matters.

During a morning devotion earlier this week, I was convicted by how distracted I have already become by Christmas preparations. I have family visiting this year and you know what that means–everything has to be perfect! I need a tree for the porch and more garland for the living room. I need decorations in my kitchen and fir-scented oil wafting from the diffuser so every room in my house smells like Christmas. Those ornaments are old, that decoration doesn’t “go” anymore, there aren’t enough lights. . . I could go on.

It struck me how completely different my Christmas preparations have been compared to God’s. There was no perfectly styled home, only last-minute lodging, a meager manger, and stalls full of animals. There were no curated Christmas scents, only the pungent smell of livestock. Mary welcomed visitors who looked and smelled as though they had come straight from the fields (because they had)–not like guests arriving for a festive celebration. Christ’s arrival was humble and lowly. Why do I feel the need to make Christmas “more”?

Maybe you need this reminder, too. In a culture and during a season when everything is demanding that we do and be everything, let’s remember what truly matters: That Christ came to redeem us from our spiritual poverty and to make us rich through Him.

This is the heartbeat of Twin Oaks Christian School. We want our students to learn in a place and among people who constantly point their hearts and minds to the Savior. Where, “O come let us adore Him” aren’t just lyrics to a Christmas carol but a way of life. We want them to be so enamored with Jesus that the world, with its shiny baubles and trinkets, has no chance of winning their hearts. I am so thankful that you and your children are part of Twin Oaks Christian School. It fills my heart with warmth and joy to think about the partnership we have in nurturing these precious students together.

This Christmas season, “May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ” (2 Thessalonians 3:5). May He slow you (and me) from the frenetic pace of the world around us. May He free you to contemplate, with awe and wonder, the true meaning of Christmas.

By: Julie Cordray, Head of School
Photo Credit: Lindsay Stewart