As Melissa and I get ready to do our annual Christmas cookie deliveries later this afternoon, I am watching the snow fall and finishing up my last emails and tasks at my office. You know each year now as I get older, I appreciate more and more the quiet, simple, pure joy of the Holiest of Seasons! I am more motivated by the things I do for others than by wondering what others will do for me. Today, not withstanding, in our over the top PC policed society that has inundated us with secular messages, homogenized worship, Winter Breaks in our schools and practically jail time for saying the dreaded phrase, "M----- C--------, I am still encouraged.
As a Christian my job is to tell "The Good News." The Bible doesn't speak of accepting defeat but rather proclaiming victory! We are not to sit idly by and give in to a world destined to fail because of it's total abandonment of the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We are to rejoice people! I've read the Book, know the ending, and will see the coming of my Lord again! We are victors and will reign with Him but we need to have our lights shine before us.
God has taken care of the rest with the birth of His Son in Bethlehem, His life changing ministry, His death and ultimate resurrection, and His promise to return for His church! We must plow the fields and reach the lost. We can do this and do great damage to the secular world by being Ambassadors of Christ. Fill the void! Give gifts other than material items. God has given us an abundance to work with. Love, joy, peace, encouragement, time, effort, prayer, support all have huge impacts and cost us no money. A toy or gadget, jewelry, or money are all nice gifts but many are relegated to the dust heap of our lives soon enough. But the total giving of yourself in the measures of time, effort and emotion will reap lifelong benefits!
This Christmas season in the midst of kids and grandkids, friends and parties, gift giving and receiving, meals shared and laughter, please remember the precious Child who was born, lived, died and rose again for all of us. There are plenty of lost souls out there who need our love and light. Please take the time to truly reflect Christ by giving the true gifts that matter. God bless you all my family and friends and may the peace of Jesus Christ be with you now and always! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
Luke 1: 30-33
But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
