DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS
December is always one of the busiest months of the whole
year, when everyone seems to be in a great rush, stores are overflowing with
people, no place to park, generally cold, and everyone
seems to have a holiday headache. Some people can't wait for the time to
arrive, so they start shopping early and have everything wrapped and labeled
ahead of time. I always talk about doing that, but at 65, I still haven't
done it, and probably never will. After all, why change at this late
date.
Birthdays are wonderful. I just celebrated one recently
and it was the best ever. We get to have a party, sometimes, we get
gifts; this year I got money. I wonder, just how
important birthdays are. Would they be important and joyful if we never
had a card, a greeting, a good meal, a party, etc? What would we feel
like, if we were just ignored? We all know people who have lost loved
ones at birthday time, people who have no family at all, so birthdays just sort
of ease their way by us and we don't have to think about it too much.
Wouldn't it be great if we could just forget all the stuff and concentrate on
something else.
Many of you out there, would rather die than to think of
getting older, because aging is not the most pleasant of thoughts,
what with so much disease and illness, poverty and other things, like
unemployment, etc., but laying aside all these things which seem so unpleasant,
let's turn aside a bit and remember whose birthday we celebrate in December.
Let’s turn our thoughts to another birthday… the birthday
of one of the greatest Kings ever to walk the face of the earth, Jesus.
None of us can say we started our earthly life in a stable, God forbid.
None of us can say that our first bed was made of straw, and had animals around
us, God forbid that also. But that is how God chose to introduce His son
to us. An identity that would follow throughout all the
generations of time, to teach us of humble beginnings. No television
gave an announcement, no newspaper heralded His coming, just a band of heavenly
angels to come as a choir and announce to some lowly shepherds out in a
field.
Folks! What would you give the King for His
birthday?
He doesn't have to worry about aging, He never grows old,
and when we get to where He is, we won't either. You can't wrap the gift He
wants most, because wrapping wouldn't be proper. He wants you, just as you are
- for his gift. This is one He can enjoy all of eternity, making
transformations to fit His need. Think about it, and let the celebration
begin. You won't be sorry. Not for one minute.
Merry Christmas everyone, and Happy Birthday
King Jesus.
