To those of us who have placed our trust in Christ, every dawn is Christmas morning. All that He is and offers us is packaged and waiting for us to unwrap and claim as our own. So go ahead; thank God, then open your gift. It’s everything you need for today plus a tad more.
May that one thing needed be to seek God’s kingdom above all. Then everything else will fall into its rightful place.
The depth of His love knows no bounds. It reached all the way down to our broken world in the form of a child. It stretched into the darkness and silence of the tomb. It mounts up into heaven where God is preparing a place for us.
Jesus, the greatest hope for humanity, entering our world in the quiet of a Bethlehem night and laid in a manger because He loved us too much to let us perish.
If we really believed that we are like sheep, under the care of the loving Good Shepherd we’ve heard about in Psalm 23, yes, we’d still have our problems – but we wouldn’t feel so unsettled, would we? Maybe peace on earth could be ours.
Guest post by author C.A. Simonson Luke 1:18, 34 – “How can this be?” vs. “How WILL it be?” Zechariah was an upright and holy priest who knew God’s laws
Jesus came to fulfill a far greater plan: He came to destroy sin, hatred, and discord, to tear down the walls of separation between man and God and restore fellowship with Him. Jesus is the Prince of Peace, the One who rules over the universe and the only One powerful enough to defeat the prince of darkness.
We need a God who stays right beside us through the good and the bad, in every blessing and every heartache, through every season and in every second of the day, through every valley and on every mountaintop. We need a God who fights for us, who displays His strength when we’re in the midst of a battle. We need a God who isn’t stingy but One who pours out His mercies and His grace upon us every morning, who piles good things into our laps, and advocates for us before the throne of God. Most of all, we need a God who forgives our sins, wipes the slate clean, restores our fellowship with Him, and offers us eternal life.
There is nothing in our past that is too dark for God’s forgiveness and grace.
Remember how the Bethlehem shepherds told everyone on the first Christmas? Let’s be like them. And let’s be more like the woman in the Vision Works commercial: “I’m just telling everyone!”
