All He Wants for Christmas...
Hello, from Hudson, Massachusetts! I'm currently taking a few minute break from my Grandma's family Christmas party to say hey and jot down a thought or two. Today's been a fun day. There hasn't been too much tension, and the laughter has far outweighed any other kind of noise, so it's been a full out success in my mind.
After noon and before dinner, we had our family gift exchange. It was at this point that I formulated the thoughts on which I'm writing now. My grandparents are awesome people, but they could be the hardest people in the world to shop for. Seriously, they've collectively (added together) lived through 150 years and they've kept gifts and appliances from every one of those years. It was a struggle for my mother, my brother, and I to figure out what to do for Christmas. Do you know anyone like that?
What do you get the person that has everything? It seems as though it's impossible to find something that would be pleasing. Isn't that the struggle sometimes in our spiritual lives, too? I mean, let's face it, God doesn't NEED anything from us, He made it all! If he wants something, I'm sure He could whip it up Himself. But even though God doesn't need anything from us, there is something that He wants. There's something He desires so much, that He'd pay any price for it.
That gift...is You. That gift is you, and me, and every person He breathed the breath of life into since the earth began. He wants us. He wants us so bad that He became one of us, so that He could die and redeem us back to Himself. How awesome is that? And all we have to do is come. We just need to come to Him, trust in Him, and surrender ourselves to Him in all we do. That's the greatest and only gift we can give to the Lord.
So when you drive by a house or church with a manger in front, or you see a special on TV, remember what it meant for that baby to be born, for God gave His gift only so that we may give our own.
Merry Christmas!
Bobby
After noon and before dinner, we had our family gift exchange. It was at this point that I formulated the thoughts on which I'm writing now. My grandparents are awesome people, but they could be the hardest people in the world to shop for. Seriously, they've collectively (added together) lived through 150 years and they've kept gifts and appliances from every one of those years. It was a struggle for my mother, my brother, and I to figure out what to do for Christmas. Do you know anyone like that?
What do you get the person that has everything? It seems as though it's impossible to find something that would be pleasing. Isn't that the struggle sometimes in our spiritual lives, too? I mean, let's face it, God doesn't NEED anything from us, He made it all! If he wants something, I'm sure He could whip it up Himself. But even though God doesn't need anything from us, there is something that He wants. There's something He desires so much, that He'd pay any price for it.
That gift...is You. That gift is you, and me, and every person He breathed the breath of life into since the earth began. He wants us. He wants us so bad that He became one of us, so that He could die and redeem us back to Himself. How awesome is that? And all we have to do is come. We just need to come to Him, trust in Him, and surrender ourselves to Him in all we do. That's the greatest and only gift we can give to the Lord.
So when you drive by a house or church with a manger in front, or you see a special on TV, remember what it meant for that baby to be born, for God gave His gift only so that we may give our own.
Merry Christmas!
Bobby
posted by Bobby at 2:17 PM
1 Comments:
Merry Christmas B! Great post... and an even better reminder!
Oh- and thanks for the pics and t-shirts! BIG BROWNIE POINTS with the men in my family... well played HB... well played....
blessings from my family to yours~ suz
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