We are in the midst of 25 Days of Fitness over at Worthy of the Prize this month. We would love for you to join us as we prepare ourselves both physically and spiritually for the arrival of our savior! I will be sharing some of the thoughts from my journey through Max Lucado's One Incredible Moment: Celebrating the Majesty of the Manger here with you each Wednesday this Christmas season.
Have you ever felt like God forgot about you? Like there is simply nothing special about you?
That you are just ordinary.
If so, I encourage you to think about the night that Jesus was born and, take heart!
An ordinary night with ordinary sheep and ordinary shepherds. And were it not for a God who loves to hook an "extra" on the front of the ordinary, the night would have gone unnocticed. The sheep would have been forgotten, and the shepherds would have slept the night away.
But God dances amidst the common. And that night he did a waltz.
...The night was ordinary no more.
God has a special plan for each one of us. And it is bigger and better than we could ever have imagined.
Who would have thought that the savior of the world would have been born in a stable to a lowly carpenter and his wife, who was pregnant before he married her?
And yet it is a beautiful picture of the fact that "man looks at outward appearances" while the Lord "looks at the heart."
Many at that first Christmas were so busy looking for a "political savior" that they missed God's best...his bigger, better plan...the birth of his son...not the one that would save them from the government...but the savior of the world, the one who would conquer the grave!
Don't miss out on what God has for you this Christmas because you are distracted by the busy-ness of the season or because you are looking for something spectacular.
Slow down. Seek him. And notice what he is doing in and around you this season.
And don't forget that people are watching you too. And you just might be the only Jesus they see.
And can I just add...thank goodness God uses the ordinary. Otherwise we would miss out on the privilege of being apart of his glorious work, bringing us closer to him and making us more like his son.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. {Isaiah 55:8-9}
Be still, and know that I am God. {Psalm 46:10}
And just a little reminder, today is the LAST day that you can purchase an Africa Glass Ornament. ALL proceeds go to help the adopting families that we support bring their children home. You will get it in time for Christmas. Go here to purchase and please help us spread the word!
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