Everyone Can Serve

I noticed on Facebook that many of you have your Christmas trees up! It seems we can never wait to get the Christmas season started. I’m with you. Christmas has got to be the best holiday ever. I know that we have made it more about the decorations, food and presents than about Jesus but most of us still draw close to Jesus at this time of year. Even people who ordinarily don’t attend church show up for at least one service that lifts up our Lord. I am glad that they do. It is great that people still today in our secular environment have a desire to worship. Gift giving really is to remind us that God gave us a magnificent gift on Christmas morning. His gift far exceeds anything we could give or receive from others. But we can receive this gift from God. And it really is a gift that keeps on giving throughout the year and every year after we receive it. Most of us don’t have anything we received at Christmas for very long. It either gets out of date or wears out, gets lost or we just grow tired of it and give it away. When we receive the gift that God gave to us we discover that it gets better and better. The more time we spend in our relationship with God the closer we become and the more blessed we are. With this in mind we can be mindful to be sharing our gift of Jesus with others this year. When someone asks us if we are enjoying the season this year we might wish to start a conversation by saying that we really enjoy the reason for the season. For God so loved us that He gave us His Son. All that receive Him can become children of God. Then as children we are heirs of God and join heirs with Jesus. Just consider those blessings this Christmas. I know that for some people Christmas is an unwanted distraction from the rest of their lives. They just need to know that God loves them. They need to understand that Christmas is about God proving His love to them by sending His only Son into the world to save us all. Christmas is also a great time for us to be a blessing. Having been so blessed by the Father we can bless others by sharing His son. Our sharing can take many forms but for sure being kind and thoughtful is a great start. As believers Christmas is our holiday. Let’s not let anything or anyone steal it away from us. I am looking forward to hearing our Children sing in Church on the 15th and then having our birthday party for Jesus. It seems like after that Sunday, Christmas has arrived. Christmas Eve will also be very special for Dianne and I as this will be the last Christmas Eve service that Dianne directs. She has been so faithful over all these years to do that service. Here’s wishing each of you a great season of worship and family fun. God is so good!