Let the record reflect the following action. November 12, 2008 Pastor Del posted his first Christmas blog! Ok, so I'm a bit early perhaps but I'm already hearing Christmas music on the radio!! Geez...at least let me get the turkey digested first! At any rate, my mind is already beginning to fill with thoughts about the holidays ahead.
How do you gauge a good Christmas? Most of us, I would guess, have some type of scale that determines whether or not this Christmas, or any Christmas, goes down as one of the better ones. And, I would imagine, most of us probably already have a pretty good idea of where this Christmas will fit on the spectrum.
We have a bad habit of making Christmas all about “me” -- my expectations, my wants, my needs, my preferences. The result is, often, that Christmas disappoints us or frustrates us in one way or another, year in and year out.
The paradox is that Christmas really is about you -- you are the reason that God sent his Son into the world. It was the only way you could be saved. He sent Jesus to be born in a manger and to die on the cross for your sins so that you could turn back to him, so that you could experience the forgiveness of sin, so that God’s face could shine upon you. Only then can you be saved.
Before you think about what you can give, be willing to receive God’s gift to you. His gift of love. His gift of acceptance. His gift of new life. When you receive God’s gift to you, you are able to give back to him, and give to those around you.
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