Christmas is just a week away now! Most of us have written our sentiments in our Christmas cards and addressed them to friends and family! Gifts have been selected and wrapped or, if you are like me, waiting to be wrapped! This is the time when last minute touches are being carefully finished around the house and afterwards it seems the twinkling lights on the Christmas tree take on a wonder all of their own! All around us, people are in the hustle and bustle. This year, like every year since Jesus was born in a manager in Bethlehem, there still are some people just too busy to hear the greatest story ever told! The story of how Angels proclaimed that Christ had been born! Mary, had brought forth her first born Son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manager, because there was no room for them in the Inn. No room for the Savior who had been born gloriously to redeem the world from sin. The Angels proclaimed good tidings of great joy which was for all people then AND for all people now! God's gift of glory, Jesus, had come to earth and every Christmas since then, men and women of Faith continue to lovingly proclaim the message of LOVE and of HOPE and redemption found in Jesus! The Holy Scriptures teach us that all those who heard then and hear now marvel at this truth told by the Shepherds who were simply going about their business on that glorious night of tending their sheep. Yes, they were on the job, so to speak, but their hearts were soft and tender enough to hear and to witness and BELIEVE! Oh, how I want to be available to hear when God sends a message of HOPE! Let us draw near and be still so we can hear!!!
May the next few days leading up to Christmas give a desire for a full spirit of LOVE for the Lord Jesus! The greatest gifts we can share cannot be wrapped in a box with paper. Our greatest opportunity is to give of ourselves!
Psalm 92:4 "For You, O Lord have made me glad by what You have done. I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands!"
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