Dear Friends:

We recently saw the popular Dr. Seuss cartoon, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which depicts a very green, and very mean Grinch character stealing all of the trappings of Christmas, and thereby thinking that he can stop Christmas from coming. This secular holiday cartoon, set in the imaginary world of Who-Ville, reminds us all too much of our current day and time. As our government declares Christmas politically incorrect, forcing Christmas trees from schools, and manger scenes from our public town squares, one fact remains astoundingly clear: Christmas will come no matter how politically incorrect any government declares that it is!

The list of the attacks on Christmas, and therefore Christianity, go on and on. And to think, that all of this uproar comes from the fact that Jesus was born of a virgin in Bethlehem, in order to bring peace and everlasting life to a chaotic and sinful world. He never did anything to harm anyone. He always spoke and taught of God’s eternal love for us, and how to live a life of goodness and hope. He healed people of devastating sicknesses and brought a little boy back to life from the cold depths of death for his grieving mother.

Though scorned and threatened from the very beginning by dictators who feared losing their thrones to this soft-spoken man from Galilee, Jesus continued to teach others how to live peaceful, loving, and holy lives. Jesus taught that through knowing and believing that He came to save the world from all manner of man’s selfishness and decadence, we can be saved from the pit of hell. And therefore, by bearing all of our wrongdoings on His shoulders in death, He died a wholly human, cruel and gruesome death, temporarily separated from His Father in heaven, in order for us to be able to stand without sin before God at heaven’s gate, and to live forever in an incredible new place called heaven

The birth of Jesus is the miraculous and the ordinary all mixed up in one incredible event. Kings brought Him gifts, and shepherds were told by angels to find and worship Him. There is the miraculous angelic announcement of His birth, coupled with the fact that He was born in a stable since there were no vacancies at the inn. That is what Jesus is all about; human enough to feel our pain, yet miraculously holy enough to transcend the ordinary events of our daily lives.

So, during this Christmas season, which cannot be stopped by politically correct governments, or by a Grinch stealing the commercial trappings of the Christmas season, we thank you for continued prayers for David Meece Ministries, and for your generous donations that help to keep the ministry thriving. Our prayer for you is that you will be able to quiet your hearts long enough to experience the one true gift of Christmas: Emmanuel, God with us in our every moment.