Merry Christmas from your friendly neighborhood Kingdom Geek! Whatever your views of the holiday itself, whatever way you may choose to live out this day, I hope that you are able to spend it with someone you love and with the assurance that by grace through faith, you might receive the greatest gift of all, for apart from this, there is no celebration, there is no merriment… there is only condemnation.
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians 4:4–7