Love is in the air by Pastor Ed Young
We begin to get frustrated but decide we will try aisle four. Aisle four is relationships. Oh, boy. Love is in the air. Every sight and every sound. So we begin to date and then we mate. Then we have children. It is great and fine and wonderful. Yet, we are still empty. We have all these relationships in our lives but there is still a crater in the cart. And now and then during the Christmas season we will go to a service like this and we will push our cart dangerously close to baby Jesus. We will look at baby Jesus but we don’t want to slow down too much because we will realize how empty we are. We look and think about Him and now and then some of us will pick up the Christ child. There is always room for a baby in the cart. We put the Christ child in the cart. We love having baby Jesus in the cart because He is harmless that way. He is just a baby. And we can push Him around and still have the white knuckle grip. We can say, “Jesus you are so sweet, so kind, so nice.” We don’t want Jesus to grow up because then we are going to have to come to terms with the sin in our lives. We might have to realize some relationship is not right. We might have to come clean in a certain area. We will have to start telling the truth to others.
We are all dressed up in our Christmas Eve attire. Everyone here looks great. Most of us match, in fact. If our wives dressed us, we do. In a real sense, if we could see the real you, some of you are exhausted. The rubber on your cart is burned off. You still have that white knuckle grip on the cart of your life and life has knocked you down to one knee. You are hammered. You are stresses. You are guild-ridden. You are depressed. You are empty. You have gone through a marriage or two, a job or two, a house or two. And you are wondering on the Christmas Eve if there is something else out there. You are shopping for a Savior.
There is a third source of the killer fees, peers. Peer pressure. I like the word peer - Ed Young.
