He Came...You're Free

I read many blogs. One of my favorites is a Gospel Coalition blog, written by Tullian Tchividian.


Today's post was moving, encouraging and convicting. My blog today is completely stolen and pirated from his blog; even my title. It's that good. So go here to read it. Please go read it. Please.

Here are the sentences that were most convicting and encouraging to me...

For those who feel the acute pressure of thinking you have to change your spouse if you’re going to be happy, you have to be on top of everything if you’re going to make it, you have to infallibly protect your kids if they’re going to turn out OK, you have to control what others think about you if you’re going to feel important, you have to be successful if you’re ever going to satisfy the deep desire for human approval and therefore avoid the judgement of worthlessness on your life, and so on and so forth…Christmas is for you.


Because of Christmas, we are now endowed with the strength to admit that we can’t make it on our own–that we’re weak and needy and restless. 


Christmas celebrates the glorious truth that no matter how hard we try, we can’t do it. Apart from the Incarnation we are left to our own devices.


Because of Christmas, we have nothing to prove or protect. We can stop pretending. We can take off our masks and be real. We hold the wining hand. We have nothing to lose.


The liberating power of Christmas frees us from trying to impress people, appease people, measure up for people, or prove ourselves to people. The Incarnation frees us from the burden of trying to control what other people think about us. It frees us from the miserable, unquenchable pursuit to make something of ourselves by using others.


As Everything, he became nothing so that you–as nothing–could have everything.


Merry Christmas