I hope that everyone had a day full of love and joy yesterday. I know that for many this is not an easy time of year and feelings of fear, loneliness, sadness, etc. can't simply be taken away with pretty lights and songs and even gifts you thought you so desired. I pray that this Christmas you experienced the joy that comes only in Christ. As my amazing minister said, "He comes as an infant in order that He might do from the beginning of life what we have failed to do from the beginning of life." We will fail over and over again but Jesus came to redeem us all, to separate us from our sin so that we are able to enter into the Father's presence so that we may one day experience a joy and love that is without flaw.
He left complete joy and love and glory to come down to Earth as a babe and experience rejection, humiliation, pain, and, worst of all, separation from the perfect joy in harmony with the Father and the Holy Spirit that He already had. But He came for us----"Thanks be to God for His inexpressible gift" (2 Corinthians 9:15).
Merry Christmas to all!
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