The Conversion of Ebenezer Scrooge
After
Christmas last year, I decided that during December this year I would read
Charles Dickens’ A
Christmas Carol to my family. Somehow at my age I’ve never
actually read the story, though I have enjoyed numerous television and movie
takes at the classic Christmas story. My favorite is still the
1980’s George
C. Scott Ebenezer Scrooge.
Dickens’
written tale is, perhaps surprisingly, a
blatantly Christian story. It is a story of a conversion to a
Christian worldview (though not as blatant as a modern evangelical gospel
tract). Of course, our Hollywood and Disney takes on the conversion of
Ebenezer leave out the Christian details, but it is obvious nonetheless in
the book! Hear Jacob Marley’s lamentation of having a selfish heart when
he lived as a human . . .
Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode?
Picture used by permission from Pixabay.
