Enchanted

The Enchanted Forest Theme Park in Ellicott, Maryland was a dreamland for little ones!  It featured a fairy tale buildings and characters, track rides through the Alice in Wonderland with teacup-shaped cars, a Cinderella castle ride with mouse-shaped cars, and a JungleLand Safari driven by Land Rover-type vehicles.  It was twenty acres of sheer delight for families!

 

What enchants you most?  Now, there’s a question!  I read somewhere if you want to see what your passions are, look at your checkbook register.  Speaking of earthly and heavenly treasures, Jesus put it plainly: “For where your treasure is there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:21).  To be enchanted is to feel great pleasure or delight.  In contrast, the word disenchanted is to be disappointed by someone or by something previously respected or admired and to become disillusioned.  Most of us can testify that things such as money, position, relationship, etc. may bring fleeting joy and satisfaction but their seasons expire.  The root cause of most disillusions is [none other than] foolish faith in world illusions.  Today, the Enchanted Forest is closed; its building and rides abandoned or demolished, and the park is no longer home to children’s delight. That’s the way of worldly enchantments, and it’s exactly John’s point: “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the Glory that comes from the only God?” (John 5:44).  The season is right for real treasure – treasure laid up where “neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.” (Matthew 6:20).  Man’s delight, his passion, his treasure, his enchantment must be in Christ Jesus – Him alone, the One and Only Son of God!  So consider what enchants you most.  May we be disenchanted with worldly treasures and instead enchanted with Christ – the Treasure – He Whom we celebrate this season!