December’s Awakening, Day 22
How many observe Christ’s birthday!
How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
—Benjamin Franklin
Christ uncrowned himself to crown us,
and put off his robes to put on our rags, and came down from heaven to keep us
out of hell. He fasted forty days that he might feast us to all eternity; he
came from heaven to earth that he might send us from earth to heaven.
—W. Dyer
Love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as
yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30–31 NIV
Christmas is a time for celebration
but let’s not forget the reason for our celebration and the reason that Christ
came. The stress of the holidays sometimes make it difficult to always portray
Christ and His love and His light, but we should be especially cognizant to be
His envoy and representative to all the watching world. Enjoy the days ahead,
but be especially thankful that He came just for you so that you could be where
He is.
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