Today in the town of David

Can you imagine if today, all at the same time, on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and every other type of social media there came one post that shut everything else out.

"Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” With that post, message, tweet, was an attachment of a being of some kind, blurred but incredibly filled with light as if he or she WAS light.

Then, with the Internet shut down, our tablets and laptops and desktops all suddenly blank, in the sky above us, all around us, same sight as one, same sight above Africa as above the Americas, etc., we see this.

"Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.'"

What the heck would we do?

What the heck would we say to someone sitting next to us? 

What would we say to the one working next to us?

Would we find God at that moment? Would we seek him more? Would we learn to walk in HIs ways? Would we try?

Seriously, friends, wouldn't that make a difference in the way we do business, the way we interact with others, the way we see Him? It seems to me that the biggest problems we have as a nation, as a community, as a world, is we are all seeking something greater than ourselves no matter how much we think of ourselves and there is only one place to find that something greater.

We can believe those things above happened one evening or we can choose to not believe them.

 If we believe them, we are called to act, to be different, to be filled with grace and with truth and with light.

 If we do not believe them, there was no one born that night, no difference-maker, no Savior, no Lord, then we will be in a life-long search that will lead us to false Gods, false religious, false living.

That's what is at stake in a company of the heavenly host saying (not singing by the way) Glory To God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.

Without that birth, there is no death, and without the death there is no heavenly eternal life, and without the resurrection there is no belief.

I did not make this up. These are the choices. I did not make this, it is making me. This baby born to die changes me, changes everything.