The weather is warming and venturing outside seems more appealing and yet Christmas looms off in the distance. By loom I mean that Christmas becomes a target for many people. “If I can just make it to Christmas, I will be fine” we say don’t we. We feel this way all because we get silly-busy in the lead up to Christmas. Work has to be completed, presents have to be brought, travel plans have to be thought through, properties need maintaining, gardens need tending, job after job has to be done!
All like there isn’t going to be another day after Christmas.
As we enter into this silly season, stop and remind yourself of who it is you live for and that God loves you and cares for you.
It may help you to remember the first sentence of Psalm 46:10 which says “Be still and know that I am God”
Say those words out loud, sing them, pray them, live into them.
“Be still and know that I am God” Says the Lord.
In Christ
Rev Michael Frost
I’ve been listening to a song by Justin Bieber recently, yes Justin Bieber, called ‘Let me love you’. In many way’s it’s your typical pop song with its catchy tune, which just goes around and around in your head, and somewhat romantic words to catch the hearts of impressionable young people. However listening to the chorus I heard what could be considered God’s words. ‘Don’t you give up, I won’t give up, Let me love you, Let me love you’. I wouldn’t go reading too much into the song, however I believe that God is always crying out to us saying ‘Let me love you’.
So consider in what ways do you need to let God love you? But also consider that God expresses love in a way which challenges our popular understanding of love.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
