Shirley Weaver
A Clear Trumpet Ministries
http://www.cleartrumpetministries.org/
Wonderful Season
Date: 12/17/2007
The Christmas season is precious. We embrace the giving of gifts in the way that we can, creating new memories and traditions that build over the time and make each year more special than the last. There may be scrooge attitudes but certainly not as a majority. The warmth of the season motivates us, no matter what our situation.
Every Christmas there are friends whose lives are different this year – a loss, a struggle, something unfair that cannot humanly be restored. These are the friends we gather around most – to support and comfort, and to remind that when the Lord allows a door to close, He has already begun to open another.
As covenant sons and daughters of the LORD, we remember Psalm 105: His judgments are working and bring justice into the center of our lives; He remembers His covenant forever and the word he commands concerning you can never stop!
To belong to the LORD and have His hand upon our lives is greater than any sadness or disappointment, greater also than any exaltation. It is the highest condition! - and the position from which we look into the season as a fortunate time of blessing. The season belongs to the LORD and to His people. From that vantage point it is an opportune time to change yesterday’s clothes for new ones, a birthing time to enter the new, giving of what we do have - it is a wealth! Oh come; let us adore Him – Christ the LORD.
Amen.
Psalm 105
