Candy Cane

As Christmas approaches and 2008 comes to end, I feel that I begin to realize and look back on what God has done in my life this past year. But too begin, because Christmas is merely hours away, consider the following and why Candy Canes are the way they are.

If you take a look at a Candy Cane, you'll notice how it is striped in red and white - unless you buy them from Wal-Mart where it comes in various colors. Anyways, in originality, the red represents the blood that Jesus shed for our sins against God - a perfect man died for imperfect humans so that we could be sinless, and that is why there is white, because our sins were wiped clean. "'Come now, let us reason together,' says the Lord. 'Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they shall be like wool." - Isaiah 1:18.

And if you take a look at the shape of the Candy Cane, you can see that upside down it is a J, which stands for the crucifixion that Jesus paid for our sins - and out of crucifixion you get the letter C. But standing up, it is a Shepard's staff, which resembles God who guides us and gave us eternal life through Jesus - and out of eternal life you get the letter E. And you come up with CE, which stands for Christmas Eve, being the night and day before the birth of Jesus - the Eve of Hope and Faith.

So remembering why Jesus came to earth on Christmas, I wish to all of you a Merry Christmas and a strong remembrance of the Hope that He gives.