some Christmas verses

Christmas is 10 days away. There is no reason to focus on things that keep us from celebrating the real meaning of this season. But that would be easy.

2020 has been full of reasons to be depressed or stressed rather than focusing on how we are blessed. There is a virus that keeps changing, or so it seems, with fear all around. So much fear keeps hitting us that we aren’t willing to step up and live. You are either bad because you do something or bad because you didn’t do it.

Seems that there is no way to win. That is when we have tried to out live the Coronavirus, but that didn’t work. We have tried to make it a conspiracy or just pretend it isn’t a big deal. So how do we deal with all the issues around us?

Let me simply remind us that none of the stuff we are dealing with changed who our God is and what He can do. Remember the question that I shared last week, “since when has impossible ever stopped you?” God is still working, He is still God completely, and God is still the hope of the entire world.

Take a few minutes think about a few verses that are center to the Christmas season.

Matthew 1:21-23 NASB

She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” 22 Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”

Isaiah 9:6 NASB

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Jesus, because He will save His people.

Immanuel, because He is God with us.

Wonderful counselor, because He holds all wisdom.

Mighty God, because all the while being man He was and is God.

Eternal Father, because He is the beginning of everything that has been or will be.

Prince of peace, because He brings peace and He is peace.

Think about it just a little bit. Don’t let the situation around you dampen your Christmas celebration!

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