Growing up I remember hearing the cute Christmas song, "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth, see my two front teeth! Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth, then I could wish you "Merry Christmas." I haven't heard it anywhere recently except in my own head. It started me thinking though, about the things we desire. Christmas is a time when many people think about what they want Santa to bring them and what they hope might be under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning. If we just receive this or that gift, we think our life will be fulfilled.
The truth is, we experience fulfillment only when God’s desires become our desires. How does this happen? Our desires begin to change when we surrender our lives to God and sincerely choose to have him remove our selfishness. Jesus, who always desired to do God’s will, comes to live in us and changes us, from the inside out, so we are more and more like Him. Jesus makes us righteous and acceptable to God and only then do we experience the reality of having what we’ve always desired.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV)
Jesus demonstrated, by His life and death, that when God’s will is our desire, the results ultimately are positive. But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. (Hebrews 10:12 NLT)
As we approach Christmas, God invites us to become those who desire to do His will always, in every area of our life. As we make this fundamental shift in our thinking and behaving we will experience the kind of satisfaction Jesus spoke about when He said, “My food, is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” (John 4:34 NIV)
As we approach Christmas, God invites us to become those who desire to do His will always, in every area of our life. As we make this fundamental shift in our thinking and behaving we will experience the kind of satisfaction Jesus spoke about when He said, “My food, is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” (John 4:34 NIV)
Prayer: Heavenly Father, My desire is to do Your will and to walk in Your ways. Please strengthen me in Your power to do what pleases You. Amen
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