Dark Silence to Joy

The world was dark.
The silence between God and man was deafening. It had been going on for four hundred years.
Religious rituals, mind-numbing customs, and a sense of abandonment.
The emperor even sought truth, because it seemed no where to be found.

This time, this was the right time.
God came crashing into our world.

The world light up as angels filled the air.
This was not a silent night. The silence between God and man was broken. The sound of music pierced the air as angels declared God's entrance into our world. Cries from the God-man gasping for his first breath sliced through the quiet of a stable.
Religious rituals were shown to be futile. The customs were now given a meaning, and the world now knew of it's purpose.
Truth had entered the world.

No amount of silly Christmas songs can do this situation justice. The night was not silent. Mary knew that her child was to be the Messiah, and there was no little drummer boy.
There were the cries of an infant, the decelerations of an angel, and the applause of none.

All this. For what?
To show us the light. To declare to a severely warped world that there was still hope.
The world began with light.
"The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the ace of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light." and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness."
The world was the same in those days. It was without form. It had no meaning. When God came to earth as a child, God declared "Let there be light" .............

"The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a  land of deep darkness, on them has light shined. "