Day 30: It Is Not About Me

These words strike my heart as if it is the first time that I have read them.

"I have been crucified with CHRIST [that is, in HIM I have shared HIS crucifixion];

it is no longer I who live, but CHRIST lives in me.

 The life I now live in the body I live by faith [by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting] in the SON OF GOE, who loved me and gave HIMSELF up for me"

(Galatians 2:20).

But then again,

when I read HIS WORD it is like the first time

because HE WORD IS LIVING.

Because of CHRISTMAS.

CHRISTMAS is not over,

 because

JESUS is not over.

CHRISTMAS BIRTHED

 the doorway to HEAVEN,

that brought JESUS to earth~

IMMANUEL,

GOD IS WITH US.

PONDER that in your heart,

like Mary PONDERED,

as she held the FRUITION of the promise in her arms.

THE PROMISE that was DELIVERED to her nine months prior.

JESUS IS HERE.

GOD IS WITH US.

The SHEPHERDS came to SEE

what

THE GOOD NEWS of GREAT JOY,

that the host of ANGELS HARKED to them.

"Seeing was believing.

They told everyone they met what the angels had said about this child.

All who heard the shepherds were impressed"...

And there was

 MARY,

PONDERING and TREASURING this moment in her heart~

"Mary kept all these things to herself, holding them dear, deep within herself"

(Luke 2:18-19)

Can you imagine that moment.

Holding THE PROMISE.

Just you and JESUS.

Stop to PONDER and TREASURE JESUS.

Say HIS NAME.

JESUS.

The ONE who came for ALL. 

And you are one of HIS ALL.

The ONE who once was a little itty baby,

swaddled in a cloth and lying in a manger,

who would be swaddled in a grave.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

From Birth to Death.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

And then it happened.

The FRUITION of GOD'S PROMISE

that HE made in the very BEGINNING,

as HE exchanged HIS FIRST CREATION'S temporary hiding clothes

of fig leaves,

and clothed them in the temporary garments made from the skin of animals,

until the FRUITION of GOD'S PROMISE.

For

JESUS ROSE.

JESUS did what GOD said HE would do.

For JESUS would CLOTH ALL

in

HIS FORGIVENESS,

HIS FAVOR,

and

HIS FREEDOM.

From the

CRADLE to the CROSS to the GRAVE

to

THE RISEN CHRIST.

IMMANUEL,

GOD IS WITH US. 

So the WORDS I read this morning

brought me once again

to the manger,

to the cross,

to the grave,

to

the RISEN CHRIST,

because

GOD took me to

the baby JESUS,

that took me to the CROSS,

so that I could experience

THE FRUITION of HIS PROMISE,

that was for little ole me,

once again.

Have you PONDERED

THE PROMISE of CHRISTMAS

that is the open door

to

THE PROMISE of EASTER.

So will you join me and

PONDER and TREASURE

HIS WORDS,

that I read this morning,

as if it is for your very first time,

and it may be.

For I am not the same,

and I am never the same

after reading HIS WORD

because

JESUS is LIVING and is always pouring out

IMMEASURABLY MORE

in you and in me,

when we

PONDER and TREASURE HIS WORD. 

Clothe yourself in HIS WORD.

and be prepared to experience  

a CHRISTMAS and an EASTER of your heart

that

takes you from your

BORN AGAIN moment to

a

BORN AGAIN LIFE,

filled with

MORE OF JESUS and LESS of you.

For when I get myself out of the picture,

it is when I

LIVE A BORN AGAIN LIFE.

Therefore,

put yourself in

HIS WORD

and have a

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY EASTER

that lasts the whole year through!

 "I, ____________________,

have been crucified with CHRIST,

that is, in HIM I have shared HIS crucifixion];

it is no longer I, _________________.

who live, but CHRIST lives in me.

The life I, _________________, now live in the body

 I, ___________________ live by faith~

by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting

 in the SON OF GOD , who loved me, _______________,

 and gave HIMSELF up

for me, ________________"

(Galatians 2:20).

So

Get Ready

and

Get Set

and

TO GO into 2026

and really LIVE

moment by moment,

as a BORN AGAIN MOMENT

as if your LIFE DEPENDED on it,

because

JESUS is

THE FRUITION OF GOD'S PROMISE~

"HE LIVES"

(listen to the song below)