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The Third Week of Advent

December 16, 2014 5 Comments

GOD’S GIFT TO US

Isn’t it amazing how quickly things become hackneyed?  Whether it’s fashion — skirts long or short, toes round or pointed — celebrities who come and go in popularity, hobbies we take up that begin to bore us, or relationships we out grow. Things we couldn’t live without — the boat, the rifle, the car, the house, the job — soon lose their newness and appeal and we are ready for something different, more exciting and challenging. Eventually, most of our interests become so trite, so… so… last week.

When the children of Israel were starving, and I mean starving in the wilderness, God gave them manna, fresh every morning, a miracle just for them. They were so grateful for this new versatile food. But before long they grew tired of the same old thing day after day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They cried that they longed for a change in diet. Manna, God’s special miracle for his children, had become so last week.

In his indescribable love, God gave us the gift of his Son. God loved the world so much — he loved me and you so much — that he gave his son.

This is almost too great to comprehend. How could I ever feel blasé about it? How could I ever tire of the story of his birth, told in narrative and song, celebrated with friends and family in places decorated with lights and symbols of the nativity?

The story of how Christ came to live among us never grows cliché. The gift God gave us is experienced fresh and new every year when this season arrives, every week as we worship together, every day, every moment we choose to bask in the great love God has for us.

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Comments

  1. Matt says

    December 16, 2014 at 4:50 pm

    I’m blown away by our tendency to pass over the amazing miracle and gift of Jesus Christ. I gloss over it daily. Thank you for this reminder. Love you, grandma.

  2. Freeda Baker Nichols says

    December 16, 2014 at 8:21 pm

    God’s love surrounds us, not only at Christmas, but every day of the year.

  3. pat laster says

    December 16, 2014 at 10:13 pm

    We need a daily reminder–especially after the glitz and glamor of the holidays is/are packed away again–till next year. Thank you for this nudge to remembrance–all year. xoxo

  4. Dorothy Johnson says

    December 17, 2014 at 10:32 am

    Love this post. Thank you for saying so well what we all need to remember.

  5. Talya Tate Boerner says

    December 18, 2014 at 8:25 am

    How could we ever feel blasé about it? True! Thanks for the reminder.

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