Now, there’s nothing wrong with buying gifts and presenting them to one another at Christmastime. I’m not kicking off a movement to rebel against the norm. However, I’d love to see God start of movement in our hearts, prompting us to “get ready” for the greatest annual day of celebration – Resurrection Day. That’s the day Jesus gave the greatest gift to you and me – life in abundance! He also took away the greatest power of the enemy – death. Praise the Lord!
So how does one “get ready” for this great day? The answer is simple in its verbiage, but quite difficult in its execution: We prepare to give our lives to Jesus in the same way He gave His life to us. We make conscious decisions to die to ourselves. We consider others before ourselves on a daily basis. We act selflessly in our relationships “to the least of these.” Like I said, easier said than done, eh?
"Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Thank you, Jesus! May You mold and shape us this year once again, to look more and more like You. Amen!
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