Day 7: The Empty Stocking
Oh how I love old movies,
and it isn't only because I am old,
but because I have always liked them.
Is it the simplicity of being in black and white
or the simple truths that they bring
or is it
Cary Grant
who plays an angel,
sent into
a Bishop's life,
to bring
Christmas back into his heart
in the movie,
"The Bishop's Wife" ?
Listen to the Bishop's renewed heart in his Christmas message called
"The Empty Stocking"
What gift will you give Jesus in His stocking?
The wise men came with gifts...
Our finest gifts we bring pa-rum pum pum pum To lay before the King pa-rum pum pum pum
But what did The Little Drummer Boy have?
I am a poor boy too, pa-rum pum pum pum I have no gift to bring pa-rum pum pum pum That's fit to give our King pa- rum pum pum pum
The Little Drummer boy, so wanting to bring
The Little Baby
something,
but was "just" a poor boy with "just" a drum.
What did he have to give that would be fit for
The Baby, The King?
Do you think like the Little Drummer Boy thinks...
What can I give to a King because I am "just" a or have "just" a?
But then you look down and see that you have a drum and
you know how to pa-rum pum pum pum.
Maybe this would be good enough.
Maybe I would be good enough.
“Shall I play for you on my drum”, the Little Drummer Boy asks.
And I bet he wasn’t ready for the response he received..
Mary nodded
Mary said yes.
When..
ALL he had was a drum
and
he played his best for them
and
then they smiled at him.
And
then the word
Come
gets louder~
Just
Come
as you are
with whatever you have
and
whoever you may or not be.
Just come…
to the Baby who whispers your name
Just
Come
"Then He smiled at me pa-rum pum pum pum" Me and my ___________!
How will you fill in the blank?
Just...
"Come, they told me pa-rum pum pum pum"
to
The Baby
Who wants to be your
King
and
Give Him your heart
so
that not only
The Baby's
stocking
isn't empty,
but so
yours
will be filled!
Come and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what He has done for me. I cried out to Him with my mouth; His praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer.
Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld
His love from me!
Psalm 66:16-20