We trace how the conflict of Christmas moves from a cosmic battle to a personal struggle, using Zechariah’s story and a mini ramp to show why fear, unbelief, and the need for control block grace. Exposure hurts, but it is the wound that heals when we trust God’s word.

• dropping in as a picture of trust
• Advent framed as inner conflict
• fear as hiding from holiness
• exposure and walking in the light
• disappointment hardening into unbelief
• God’s delays as wisdom and love
• difference between clarity and control
• trusting God’s word without conditions
• choosing whom to trust
• prayer and communion as responses of surrender

Come and receive him today in these elements, be refreshed, be strengthened, be built up