Daily devotion – the heart of our Father
Christmas is just around the corner, yet at times we are filled with mixed emotions. We remember family members, loved ones, who are no longer with us. We think of those we are aware of who will be alone this Christmas. Of the children who will perhaps have no present, and whose day of which the world celebrates the birth of our Saviour, will be one of fear and sadness.
The Bible tells us where each are made in His image. It is for this reason we have compassion and love for those for whom this fallen world has truly crushed and made them into human wreckage.
It is this stirring in our hearts that reflects we indeed are made in the image of the loving God. For He looks at His creation and surely weeps. For we decided to go our own path. To ignore the Paradise that He had created for us and chose to believe instead the lie of the enemy Satan. We chose to listen to a liar, a murderer, the destroyer who has no care or concern for God’s Creation and only seeks to destroy it and turn our hearts against our Heavenly Father.
We as a Church, have a mission. Our mission is to reach the lost, to pray for God’s will to be done here on earth, and to love those for whom Christ our Saviour died.
Yet at times it appears as if the Church has more of the world’s ways in it than the heart of the God who is Love. This coming Christmas Eve gives us a Christians another opportunity to invite someone who does not yet know Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord. Therefore, they will not have experienced the knowledge that God loves them!
We each owe our very breath to God as He sustains us and keeps us as Paul reminds us – Act 17:28 “for in Him we live and move and have our being…”
Whilst we have God’s breath and His life keeping us, let us look to use it to His glory. Let us pray, let us read His Word, let us love one another and let us share the good news of the Gospel this Christmas Season.
For time is running short, the Last Days are upon us. We have been given a mission, Christ Himself commanded us to “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel…” Let us seize this most important of time, the reason for our existence, and let us glorify God and serve Him, with all our hearts.
Let us fill these days of the Christmas Season with prayer, His Word, and His love and then let us see the power of God released as He promised.
Let us see the widow comforted, the orphan find a family, and the lost to meet their Good Shepherd.
We have much work to do, let us lay aside those things that are selfish. Let us not be thinking about ourselves at all. But let us have the heart of our Heavenly Father and let us be about His business and doing His will in our lives.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
It is God’s love and His passion for the lost that drives us to serve Him. Let us live this privilege out this week. Witness to a stranger, invite a friend to our Christmas Eve service and let us see God glorified!