We sing quite a number of songs for Christmas, both in Uganda and here. One of the Christmas songs that stands out is “Joy to the World, the Savior Has Come…”
Growing up as kids — first of all, I grew up in Uganda. To be specific, in the village where a majority of people treasured Christmas and look towards that day, which was very, very important in their lives. They would treasure going to church. And after church, they would come back home to enjoy their meal, which was usually a big thing.
I was born and raised in a Christian family. My mother was attending a Christian church, an Anglican church. As kids, we kept going with her to church, I followed her along with my siblings. So for some reason, we got involved in what was going on at church. We became members eventually in church. And as we grew up, I got interested in reading the Word, the Bible, to be specific. My life at high school was transformational. That is when I really developed some kind of a closer relationship with the Lord and trying to do what the Bible asks me to do. Eventually, I desired more from the Lord and I tried to seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and that was a beautiful moment.
I find the incarnation more complete in Trinity. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. I know that God so loved the world, and He wanted to draw everybody to Himself, but that was not going to be possible because God was not man. Incarnation completes that equation. Christ's birth brought a whole picture of who God was and is. With His Holy Spirit who lives within us, I find that the most fulfilling presence of the Lord, each time I close my eyes to pray to Him, that is the main contact, the experience that I have of incarnation.
