PrintDecember 23, 2010
Saved by Christmas
Preparations are underway in the United States and the nations of Europe to celebrate Christmas first and foremost as a tribute to materialism. These increasingly agnostic and secular societies have chosen to ignore the existence of God and have instead placed more and more trust in man. The consequence of this misguided reliance and the reality of God's outstretched helping hand is embodied in the story of a young boy from the streets of a nameless city in an unknown country.World War II has ended, and somewhere in central Europe, a solitary figure, his clothes in tatters, carefully walks around the piles of rubble and broken glass on the streets of a once-bustling city now lying in ruins. The few still-upright walls, their windows and doors blown out, appear as skeletons framed against the blue sky. No one knows this boy's age, his name, or to whom he was born. After the death of a woman he had lived -- perhaps a relation, but perhaps not -- he was on...(Read Full Article)
