Christmas can be a very exciting time of year. We anticipate gifts and goodies and fun with our families. For some that is not the picture they see. They see lack of food, no money for gifts and divided families split because of divorce, death, or absence.
We’ve made the focus of Christmas be something totally different than what it should be. When we focus on the true meaning of it, the birth of Jesus who came to save us from our own habits of sin and wrong doings Christmas can be the same for everyone.
We are all equal in the eyes of God. No one person has more of Him than the other. There are no gifts that need to be purchased only accepted in our hearts. Jesus came to fetch us home to Heaven but we need to accept that gift before we can get it.
Like you would never leave an unopened gift under your tree, don’t leave unopened the gift of having Jesus as the main focus of your life. Invite Him in to stay. Make room in your heart. Look forward to the true family gathering that will happen when we all get to Heaven to be with Jesus.
The story doesn’t start and end at the manger where Christ was born. It goes beyond December and it needs to go beyond that in our hearts. Don’t put Jesus away with the Christmas decorations. Keep Him front and center year around as you get to know the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords who left the comforts of Heaven just for you.
Merry Christmas to All and Happy Birthday to You, Jesus!
© 2009 Karen J. Gillett @ Pencil Marks and Recipes Publishing
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About Me
- Karen
- I reside in Oregon, with my husband of 32 years. I'm a mother of one and grandmother of six, counting my two newly adopted grandsons. I teach a women’s Bible Study. In June of 2007 God asked me to take with me the things I had learned in my own Christian walk to help those traveling down similar roads. A journey that started with a head injury in Jr. High School and the epilepsy it was to create later for 7 long years. One day I was given the key to my cure. In order to have the surgery to cure the 10% of my seizures that were truly epileptic I was told I had to get rid of first the 90% that were stress caused. For the next five years I took my stress issues to the Lord, leaning and relying on Him and His word as well as catchy sayings of others to see me through. As peace, obedience to God and giving up bad habits replaced worry, stubbornness and disobedience my stress seizures began to disappear. Finally I qualified for the surgery. The end result after 20 years has been being seizure free and pill free all those years. Praise the Lord. God is the cure. I can be contacted at karijo_fluffy@yahoo.com.
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