Christmas is Just the Beginning

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Welcome To Our World, Chris Rice
11th Century Byzantine art from the Daphni Monestary, Greece
Tears are falling, hearts are breaking 
How we need to hear from God 
You've been promised, we've been waiting
Welcome Holy Child
Welcome Holy Child

 Hope that you don't mind our manger 
How I wish we would have known 
But long-awaited Holy Stranger
Make Yourself at home
Please make Yourself at home
Bring Your peace into our violence
Bid our hungry souls be filled
Word now breaking Heaven's silence
Welcome to our world
Welcome to our world
Fragile finger sent to heal us
Tender brow prepared for thorn
Tiny heart whose blood will save us
Unto us is born
Unto us is born

So wrap our injured flesh around You
Breathe our air and walk our sod
Rob our sin and make us holy
Perfect Son of God
Perfect Son of God
Welcome to our world 

Listen to the song

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Oh how true this song is. We all need to hear from God, daily, if not more, connecting with Him through prayer.  And this just isn’t talking to him, but also taking the time to listen to what he has set on our hearts. 

As the holydays wrap up, let us look to God and his son Christ Jesus in the new year, relying on our personal relationship with him.  As the song states, “let our hungry souls be filled,” with the truth that he is, “for man does not live on bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD” (Deuteronomy 8:3).

Repent of your past failures and look towards the future, that is, a future in heaven with the Creator.  Because of his steadfast love, when we stand before him on the Day of Judgment, it is not our sins he sees; rather, it is Christ in us.  For his “Tiny heart whose blood will save us” was the price paid for our sin, in theological terms, propitiation. So when you think of sinning STOP…and think of Jesus on the cross. It was our sin that pinned him there, it was his blood that saved us.

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