What if
"All I (you) want for Christmas are My Two Front Teeth"
& you didn’t get them~
then what?
Yes, you would be toothless~
but what about your unfulfilled need that remained.
Would this Christmas be marked down as a bad Christmas?
Your toothless smile
would daily remind you of that “bad" Christmas
&
you would hope the next one would be better.
What do you really want~
and
what if you never receive it?
Would This Baby be a bad baby?
We don't blame Santa
for not receiving what is written on our Christmas list,
so
what about when
God
doesn’t give you what you want when you want it?
Do you blame God?
I have been there many times
and will probably visit that place many more times,
in those moments of
I want what I want when I want it, but
what if
just what if
we
accept the gift of what
God gives us~
of what
we need when we need it
even when it
doesn’t look like anything like what we wanted?
Hmm…
hard to accept,
and at times we refuse to accept the "gift" because it isn’t
"What I want".
But...
because
God is God
&
God knows you & I
better than we know ourself,
He knows what we need when we need it
and it many not be the what we want when we want it.
The world wanted a
Savior
to bring peace on earth and goodwill to men....
but
then
God
sends a
Little Baby~
a
Baby
that
does not look like a King.
Who wants to trust a Baby for all that he/she needs?
It isn’t about trusting
a Baby,
as it is about trusting the
One
who sent the
Gift.
The swaddled little
Baby,
looking into
His parents eyes on the night of
His Birth,
was sent
because
God
knew
what we all
Needed.
He sent
Peace,
Joy,
Hope & Love...
all wrapped up in a
Baby.
He didn’t send extra teeth, a bike or a car
He sent a Baby
But a Baby?
This gift was all about the Giver..
"For God so loved the world…
that He gave His One and Only Son..." John 3:16
"For God so Loved"~
He sent
The Perfect Gift
"For God so Loved"~
He will give you
what you need
when you need it and
& that will end up being
what is what you really wanted in the first place.
What is number one on your want list?
Is it a person, place or thing?
Or is it just to be happy?
Whatever it is, it is important to you, so it is important to God.
But God…
Sent His Son.
This Little Baby
who
would grow up to the be
a King…
Who
is
What we all
Need.
“For whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life”~
and
that is all that we really need,
because
This Little Baby
Will
give you all that you really wanted in the first place.
Accepting this gift from the Giver
will make
This Baby
be number one on your want list.
because
He
will be what all that you need when you need it~
today
tomorrow and
beyond December 25.
*A Disclaimer: Sorry if I lead you astray, but those beautiful feet are not the feet of my grandchild.
They are my friend's grandchild's feet.