12/10/2021

“A little baby, all that fuss about a little baby. It’s not like one little child can make such a difference!” How sad we humans are. How dark and without hope we are! I remember my first Christmas as a Christian and how everything changed. I still love Christmas stories, but The Child was at the center. One little Child changed Mary and Joseph’s life incredibly (isn’t that true of our children)! One little Child changed Bethlehem forever! One little Child changed the lives of the Magi! One little Child changed Herod’s life! One little Child CHANGED THE ENTIRE WORLD! I know that you will say that this is only so because that little Child is God! But I beg to differ!

Look throughout history and you will see one child again and again will change the world! It is almost always one child that makes a difference in the world. We have become sated and hopeless and have lost the wondrous hope that not only can one child make a difference, but we can be that child who can make a difference. When that is true we are lost in the darkness and will not experience the bright cleansing light of Christmas! We will settle for the trash and baubles of this world under the tree and miss the gift of the hope and glory that we can make a difference in this world! The hope and glory of God that we are important if for no other reason than that God loves us and gave His ONLY Son for us! That because God gave us Jesus we can do amazing, wondrous, wonderful and at times alarming things! Because of that Child we can become a blessing to the world by living as children of the most high God!

We can change the world, we can change forever and even more God can use us to change someone’s life! We are to be a light to the darkness of our world, we are to be hope to the world’s despair, we are to be love to the world’s fear and we are to be that child that changes the world!

Have you not figured it out yet? As you have received the gift of Christmas

God has made you a Christmas gift to the world! Merry Christmas!

“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” (John 14:12 NIV)

From December 2016 Newsletter