“Fallen humanity does not create days worth celebrating”
Jill Biden introduced the 2024 White House Christmas theme, celebrating resilience, community, and unity. The theme draws inspiration from a Fraser fir named “Tremendous,” which withstood Hurricane Helene, symbolizing hope and perseverance through challenges. Sourced from a North Carolina farm affected by severe storms, the tree reflects the strength of overcoming adversity. In their holiday message, the First Lady and President highlighted values of fellowship, faith, community, unity, and peace, emphasizing the importance of togetherness and light during the holiday season.
It isn’t just Charlie Brown who needs to be reminded of what “Christmas is really all about.” First Lady Jill Biden, as “director” of the annual White House show of Christmas pageantry, appears to need a modern-day Linus to remind her what peace and light are “really all about.”
It has always been the delusion of arrogant men to embrace the possibility that beauty, goodness, peace, and light could originate without the existence of a beautiful and good Creator (Romans 1:25).Peace and light are not simple props that exist in a ‘holiday season’; they are supernatural manifestations of a good God’s work that exist because of His grace and goodwill (Luke 2:14). Fallen humanity does not create days worth celebrating; rather it ruins holiday gatherings, creates conflicts (James 4:1-2), and “substitutes darkness for light and bitterness for sweet” (Isaiah 5:20). Broken worlds are filled with darkness, and wicked hearts know no peace (Isaiah 48:22).
To welcome a season of peace and light without acknowledging their source is an act of foolishness committed by those “who suppress the Truth in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18) and refuse to acknowledge, honor, or give thanks to God (Romans 1:19-22).
It is God alone who introduces a season of peace and light. He will be the One who “makes wars to cease” (Psalms 46:9), He alone is the One who will “teach nations His ways” (Isaiah 2:3), and He alone will accomplish it with such finality that men “will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war” (Isaiah 2:4). Until that day comes, may the remnant be as faithful as Linus to take our prophetic place on the stage of our day, reminding others that Jesus is not only the “reason for the season,” He is the “Prince of peace” (Isaiah 9:7) and the “light of the world” (John 8:12).
