All I Want For Christmas Is ...
Thursday December 19, 2019
Growing up many of us 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.’" The words of that song may start us thinking about what we would like to find under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning. Many of us think if we just had this or that gift, then our life would be fulfilled.
The truth is, we experience fulfillment only when God’s desires become our desires. How does this happen? Our desires start to change when we give our will and our life over to the care of God. Through Jesus’ finished work on earth, our relationship with God is restored and we are made righteous and acceptable in God’s sight. We become precious children of our Heavenly Father. We ask God to help us turn away from our self-centered ways and begin to follow His ways in all our affairs. As we follow God’s will for us, the power of His Holy Spirit changes us from the inside out and we grow to be more like Jesus in all our ways. We then experience the joy of having life in all its fullness restored to us.
Jesus demonstrated through His life and death that when God’s will is our desire, the outcome is always 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 wholeheartedly desire to do His will in every area of our lives. As we make this fundamental shift in our thinking and behaving, we will experience the kind of satisfaction Jesus spoke about when He said,
As we approach Christmas, God invites us to wholeheartedly desire to do His will in every area of our lives. 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 by the power of Your Holy Spirit to do what pleases You. Amen
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