It is Christmas Day, 2015. The family will descend on my parents house in a half hour. In the antipodes the business and social year ended yesterday. Today is a respite: it is one of the two days in the year when all shops are closed.

Our elite are post Christian, but the faith remains, and is sustained. For God always leaves a remnant.

A Psalm of David. The LORD says to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”

The LORD sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter.
Rule in the midst of your enemies!
Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power,
in holy garments;
from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.
The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind,
“You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”

The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.

(Psalm 110:1-5 ESV)

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

(1 John 4:7-16 ESV)

The God who will shatter kings and destroy elites is same God who tells us to love each other. At this time, we need, not to think of this as universal, but peculiar. We need to love our children and parents and family. We need to love the brothers and sisters in the faith.

And we need to be merry. Not necessarily with gifts: but with time. It may be that an evening of cards and conversation is better than an iphone.

Let the elite rage and claim that the incarnation did not happen, and that all religions are but delusions or part of a political process, let us ignore them. They have no hope. But we have Christ, who is more than hope: he has already won.

UPDATE
2015, Thanks, Will.