CHRISTmas in JULY
sounds so strange to me,
because
CHRISTmas is year long
because
JESUS is year long.
JESUS doesn't get packed up in a box,
to be opened for the next
CHRISTmas season.
Yet doesn't
HE get buried amongst the rubble
of the hardships, the hurts, and the pains of the world.
Nothing can BURY JESUS,
because HE ROSE.
Oh even the GRINCH couldn't STEAL CHRISTmas from
the HEARTS of every Who down in Who-ville,
even though that was his mission
And oh how he thought succeeded,
because he stripped every house
of every gift,
of every ornament,
of every piece of food,
of everything
that he believed was their reason for the season,
yet he left one thing behind
that can not be stolen,
that can not be stripped away ,
even when it appears that everything that is important is stripped away~
JOY.
For on CHRISTmas morning,
as he waited to hear the sobs,
instead he heard a song
being sung with
JOYFUL HEARTS
from every Who down in Who-ville
Not even the Grinchiest Grinch could steal
the JOY from their hearts,
because their JOY was from within
and not from without.
Oh
even when everything that you once knew
is stripped away,
you still have your beating HEART inside
that no one can snatch from you.
Oh a HEART that
RECEIVES JESUS
is filled with a JOY
that is forever.
Because JESUS
was stripped down to be a
BABY,
to be stripped down to be on cross,
to be left for dead.
But
no one can steal
CHRISTmas,
for
JESUS ROSE
because no one can stop
GOD'S PLAN of REDEMPTION
that is for one and for all.
From the CRADLE TO THE CROSS,
as the singing came after the stripping
of JESUS' grave cloths
on that Easter morning
and hasn't stopped since,
because
even the
Grinchiest Grinch
does not have the power
to
steal what is not his~
for you & me & everyone else
who are
IN CHRIST.
For we have an inheritance that is way bigger
than a couple of gifts & decorated trees
&
the CHRISTmas feast
that can not be stripped away~
"I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish;
no one will snatch them out of my hand.
My FATHER, who has given them to ME, is greater than all;
no one can snatch them out of MY FATHER'S hand.
I and the FATHER are ONE”
(John 10:28-30).
Oh The Grinch may be a made up character,
yet with a REALITY message,
that when everything is stripped away,
where is your JOY rooted?
So let's join together
and make
CHRISTmas year long,
by not being fixated on what has been stripped away,
but on the ONE who
hasn't been stripped away,
from you & me & everyone else
who will continue to
keep
CHRIST in CHRISTMAS
because
CHRISTMAS is forever on our hearts.
And that my friend
is worth singing about it,
just like
every WHO in WHOVILLE
who haven't stopped singing.
(watch below)
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