“You Bid Us True and Faithful Be”
And Mary said, “Behold, I am the Handmaid of the Lord;
Let it be to me according to your word.”(Luke 1:38)
Have you decorated your tree yet? Because the evergreen remains green and lifelike when other vegetation appears to have “failed” for the season, it has become a symbol of the constant and ongoing faithfulness of our God.
As we decorate our trees each year, we may well remember that the Christmas season offers us the assurance that, like the evergreen, our God is faithful, year after year. He can be trusted to keep his word; he will not fail us or forsake us. He proved that by faithfully keeping his promise to send the world a Savior, one who was not only “faithful unto death” for us (although that in itself is a great gift), but who remains alive beyond the grave for us. The evergreen can be a symbol of that great gift too.
As our God is faithful, so he calls on us to be faithful too, to take him at his word, trusting that he can and will keep his promises to us, and then determined to live in such a way that everything we do gives glory to him – like shining ornaments on a tree.
O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
Forever true your color.
You bid us true and faithful be
And trust in God unceasingly.
O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
Forever true your color.
Lord, thank you for all the ways you give us what we need to help us grow in faith, hope and love.
Amy Inghrahm
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