How’s your Christmas season going?
By that, how busy are you? What’s got your time tied up in knots?
Do you have parties planned every weekend, maybe a school play with your kids? Perhaps you are under pressure to get the house decorated. There’s no way you can leave that undone.
Here’s the thing it’s easy to overlook: The holiday is all about Jesus.
We know that iconic tagline: Jesus Is the Reason for the Season.
The question is whether we practice it.
Let’s see what Max Lucado, Christian teacher and author, has to say about Christmas and listening for God:
“Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him–and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.”
One sentence from this passage jumps out. God goes to those who have time to hear him.
John 16:33 reflects this truth at us.
“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Jesus is talking to us today. He’s telling us we can have his peace.
Note what this verse doesn’t say. Jesus doesn’t promise to remove our troubles. He promises us peace as we endure them.
How can he offer us peace? What qualifies him to settle our souls and even out our bumpy ride through life? Those words are there also. Jesus has overcome the world by his sinless life and sacrificial death on the cross.
When we listen for Jesus, he will whisper his words of encouragement in our ear.
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