What if
All you wanted for CHRISTMAS were your Two Front Teeth
& you didn’t get them~
Now what?
Yes, you would be toothless, but what about your unfulfilled NEEDthat remained.
Would this CHRISTMAS be marked down as a
bad CHRISTMAS?
Your toothless smile
would daily remind you of that
“bad" CHRISTMAS
&
you would hope the next one would be better.
What do you really want & what if you never receive it?
Would THIS BABY be a bad baby?
We don't blame Santa for not receiving what is written on our
CHRISTMAS list,
so what about when
GOD
doesn’t give you what you want when you want it~
Do you blame GOD?
I have been there many times & will probably visit that place again
in those moments of
'I want what I want when I want it'. But what if we accept the gift of what
CHRISTMAS gives us~
of what we NEED when we NEED it
even when it doesn’t look like anything like what we wanted?
Hmm…
hard to accept & at times we refuse to accept the "gift" because it isn’t
"What I want".
But because
GOD is GOD
&
GOD knows you & I better than we know ourself,
HE knows what we NEED when we NEED it
&
it many not be the what we want when we want it.
The world wanted a
SAVIOR
to bring peace on earth and goodwill to men,
but
GOD
sends a little
BABY
that does not look like a King.
Who wants to trust a BABY for all that he/she needs?
It isn’t about trusting a baby, as it is about trusting the
ONE who sent the GIFT~
the swaddled little
BABY~
because
GOD knew what we all NEEDED!
HE didn’t send extra teeth, a bike or a car.
HE sent
Peace
Joy
Hope & Love
all wrapped up in a
BABY.
This gift from the GIVER~
"For GOD so loved the world… that HE gave HIS One and Only SON..." (John 3:16)
"For GOD so Loved"~
HE sent
The Perfect Gift.
"For GOD so Loved"~
HE will give you what you NEED when you NEED it
& that will end up being
what is what you really wanted in the first place.
What is number one on your want list that you haven't received yet?
Is it a person, place or thing?
Or is it just to be happy?
Whatever it is, it is important to you so it is important to GOD.
This Little BABY
didn't stay in a manger just for
CHRISTMAS DAY.
HE grew up to the be
THE KING
Who
is
WHO we all
NEED beyond
CHRISTMAS DAY~
“For whoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16)
Now that is all that we really NEED,
in the midst of all of our wants that we don't yet have~
in the midst of waiting
in the midst of grief
in the midst of angst
in the midst of _______.
The BABY JESUS
births in you
all that you really wanted in the first place.
When you make
HIM
number one on your want list
HE
will be what all that you need when you NEED it beyond December 25.
Now What?
Look Up and embrace the ONE who
came from
RICHES to be swaddled in Rags
so that
HE could take our
Rags and swaddle us in
HIS RICHES
that brings
"JOY UNTO THE WORLD" (listen to the song below)