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e-devotion Merry Christmas!!!!

 


From our family to you and yours, Merry Christmas!


2020 has been a year we will most likely just want to forget.  It has brought us pain, problems, prohibitions and so much more.  Yet throughout there have been some victories that we need to remember.


God is still working.  Nothing changes the fact that God loves us.  God knows what is happening and is working His perfect plan.  He is offering us abundant life even in the middle of the storms.  But how can we see those truths.


Open our eyes.


Stay optimistic.


Share with others.


Recognize the blessings and even the miracles.


We can claim the trouble or the blessings.  We can focus on what we cannot do or on what we have been able to do.  We could say it is all dark and looming of even more decay or we can see how God brought fresh light and some thought about what might be to come.


I challenge us to take this Christmas has more than just another day.  Celebrate.  Celebrate the fact that God sent His son as the perfect gift that we all need.  Celebrate the fact that even when we are alone we aren’t because God is with us always.  Take the next opportunity and look to see what God is doing.


Jesus is still ….


Isaiah 9:6  NLT

For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.


Wonderful counselor.  Mighty God.  Everlasting Father.  Prince of Peace.


Matthew 1:23  NLT

“Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’”


He is with us.


Matthew 1:21  NLT

And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”


Jesus.  Savior.  For us.


With all that in mind, Merry Christmas.  May God keep on letting us see and enjoy and share His awesome and endless light!

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