The Ultimate Wreath

What’s round and goes on people’s front doors at Christmas? A Christmas wreath.

It’s a circle of flowers, leaves and twigs that form a ring.

Christmas wreaths are normally made of evergreen plants to represent everlasting life.

We also use wreaths when we remember people who have died, like when we lay a wreath on Anzac Day at a war memorial.

In the ancient world, wreaths were often used as a crown.

Back at the original Olympic Games, the wreath was used instead of medal to symbolise victory.

Did you know that Jesus wore a wreath as a crown? 

He had a crown that showed victory.

But his crown wasn’t made of evergreen plants, like a Christmas wreath.

And his crown wasn’t made of laurel like an Olympic wreath.

His crown was made of thorns.

As he died on the cross, people mocked him by placing a thorny crown on his head.

This is the ultimate wreath.

Because the way that we get the everlasting life of the evergreen Christmas wreath is from the death of the thorny Easter wreath… the crown of Christ Jesus.

God showed his love to us by sending his Son, Jesus, to be born at Christmas, and to die at Easter.

The father sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.

And he sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. (1 John 4:9-10)

Is 2020 the year for you to put your trust in Jesus, and find certainty for eternity?

Is this the Christmas to trust in Christ Jesus as your personal saviour?

JODIE McNEILL