The First Promise of Christmas
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” - Genesis 3:15
Christmas Eve carries a special weight. Lights shine, songs rise, and hope feels close enough to touch. But the true story of Christmas began long before shepherds and angels and a baby in a manger. It started in a garden, at the moment humanity took its first fall. In one act of rebellion, Adam and Eve chose their way over God’s way, and everything broke. Shame entered. Fear entered. Death entered. Yet right there, in the very place where humanity failed, God spoke the first promise of Christmas.
In Genesis 3:15, God told the serpent that someone would one day come from the line of the woman. The serpent would strike His heel, but the Savior would crush the serpent’s head. It was a strange prophecy at the time, but it was filled with hope. God did not leave the first people in their guilt. He did not abandon them to the consequences they had created. Instead, He made a promise. A Redeemer would come. Evil would not win. Death would not have the last word.
From that moment on, the entire story of Scripture began pointing toward that promise. Every prophet, every sacrifice, every shadow in the Old Testament was moving history toward one night in Bethlehem when God Himself entered the world to fulfill what He had spoken in the garden. Christmas was not a spontaneous idea. It was the completion of a promise thousands of years old.
On this Christmas Eve, remember that same truth in your own life. God is still faithful to His promises. Even when you fail, He does not turn away. Even when life feels broken or confusing, He is already working out redemption. The God who made the first promise of Christmas kept it through Jesus, and He continues to keep His promises toward you.
As you wait for Christmas morning, let hope rise again. The Savior has come. The enemy has been crushed. And the God who began His plan in a garden still brings redemption into the darkest places of your life.
Christmas Eve carries a special weight. Lights shine, songs rise, and hope feels close enough to touch. But the true story of Christmas began long before shepherds and angels and a baby in a manger. It started in a garden, at the moment humanity took its first fall. In one act of rebellion, Adam and Eve chose their way over God’s way, and everything broke. Shame entered. Fear entered. Death entered. Yet right there, in the very place where humanity failed, God spoke the first promise of Christmas.
In Genesis 3:15, God told the serpent that someone would one day come from the line of the woman. The serpent would strike His heel, but the Savior would crush the serpent’s head. It was a strange prophecy at the time, but it was filled with hope. God did not leave the first people in their guilt. He did not abandon them to the consequences they had created. Instead, He made a promise. A Redeemer would come. Evil would not win. Death would not have the last word.
From that moment on, the entire story of Scripture began pointing toward that promise. Every prophet, every sacrifice, every shadow in the Old Testament was moving history toward one night in Bethlehem when God Himself entered the world to fulfill what He had spoken in the garden. Christmas was not a spontaneous idea. It was the completion of a promise thousands of years old.
On this Christmas Eve, remember that same truth in your own life. God is still faithful to His promises. Even when you fail, He does not turn away. Even when life feels broken or confusing, He is already working out redemption. The God who made the first promise of Christmas kept it through Jesus, and He continues to keep His promises toward you.
As you wait for Christmas morning, let hope rise again. The Savior has come. The enemy has been crushed. And the God who began His plan in a garden still brings redemption into the darkest places of your life.
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HThe light will soon be here on Christmas day. And that light is the birth of our Lord and Savior. The promise God gave us all will soon be here and completed. We celebrate the birth of our Savior to God be the Glory.