As I was running early yesterday on the dirt road nearest my home, I couldn’t help but think of what a gift it was to be able to run in shorts at the end of December - and on Christmas Eve no less. But that gift, I then thought as I began to cry, completely pales in comparison to the gift the Lord was preparing to give the world on this very day over 2,000 years ago. It was a gift so big and so amazing that the world could hardly grasp it, yet so small that it could fit into the arms of a mother who had been anxiously awaiting the day we now celebrate as Christmas.
This gift of course was the Son of God born to a virgin and appropriately given the “name Immanuel” because of His choice to be born as a man and live among us. And to think that the greatest Gift you and I could ever receive came in the lowliest of ways reminds us that He is truly “God with us,” - with us in the dirt, poverty and stench of a stable and with us now continuing to offer the gift of eternal life if we would only accept it.
So above all else today, let us celebrate the Gift we have received that was larger than the universe but small enough to fit in a manger... the Gift that forever changed the world. Merry Christmas!!! God is with us friends!!
Heavenly Father, thank You giving us your one and only Son who chose to live with us to give us the gift of eternal life that we didn’t deserve and could never earn on our own. Oh Lord if there is someone reading this that has never accepted this gift, I pray that today would be the day they would open their hearts and hands to accept it. It’s in your precious name we pray Jesus. Amen.
Happy Running!!!
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