Theme For David Jeremiah Devotional December 5 2020 – Deck the Halls With Evergreen
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
John 6:47
Recommended Reading: 1 John 5:11-13
Imagine your family’s response if you brought home a seven-foot-tall oak sapling—a thin trunk, a few scraggly limbs, brown, with no leaves as your Christmas tree this year. Their response would not be joyful! When the custom of decorating a tree for Christmas began in Europe in the sixteenth century, it was the dead of winter. The only green trees in the forests were conifers (evergreens): hemlock, spruce, fir, and the like.
The time of year for cutting a tree may have had something to do with the choice of evergreens, but there was likely a better reason. Christmas is the celebration of the life of God coming to earth in the Christ-Child and His promise of eternal life. Therefore, an evergreen tree, full of life year-round, was the obvious choice to use in a Christmas celebration. We have been decorating at Christmas ever since with evergreen trees, boughs, garlands, and wreaths. Christmas evergreens speak of the ever-living life of Christ in all who believe.
Don’t let the significance of the evergreen go unnoticed this Christmas. Rejoice that life in Christ never goes away—not now, not for eternity.
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