Today I’m expecting a rather large shipment of presents for my kids and grandkids. I have resorted to being an Amazon junkie. The world has sucked the desire for spending hours in a Walmart or toy store line with opinionated liberal nazi’s, who look with judging eyes to see who’s not wearing a mask, and would (and have) called the Rona-cops to report them. (Not that all mask wearers are liberals, but you know the ones who are). There was no Black Friday shopping for me this year. And while I’m excited about those gifts coming today, because they were purchased with great thought for the ones I love, those having nothing to do with my Christmas wish.
3 John 1:2 KJV
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
The very fact that I have the aforementioned thought of judgmental people proves that there is still sin in my soul. I shouldn’t feel like that, but I do. Our souls are not diseased with any virus, they’re diseased with sin. But through the Spirit of God it can be said that we are in good spiritual health if we allow Him to reign over our thoughts and desires. So that is my first wish for you and I this Christmas.
The 🎁 Gift of Self Control
Thats a tough one. But the world doesn’t need to see the Shari who looks back at them in frustration because I personally believe that mask is detrimental to my heath and doesn’t prevent the spreading of this disease. If it does why are 85% masked up, and it’s still rising. According to Fauci that’s all it would take to get this disease under control. And yet here we are. The frustrated Shari wanted to call him “fathead Fauci” but that wouldn’t be very godly and would ruin the point of my first Christmas wish. The self control I don’t always have and is not a proven fact. Praise God our iniquities are all forgiven.
My second Christmas wish for us is
The 🎁 Gift of a Spiritual Appetite
With that we will surely prosper. I wish that I could tell you that I get up every morning, open the word of God without delay and never get side tracked. That would be nice and is certainly within the scope of possibility. But first I have to ignore my appetite for social media, coffee, breakfast cereal, Blaze Media and all thoughts shiny and bright. True story. It falls right in line with the self control. We do what we want to do, and far too often that is putting God on the back burner to simmer and wondering why we’re not on fire. Man, did I ever just step on my toes!
My third Christmas wish for us is
The 🎁 Gift of Salvations Joy
The whole reason that Baby was born in a manger wasn’t so we’d have a quaint scene on our fireplace mantel. It was the prophecy fulfilled as spoken in Isaiah
Isaiah 7:14 KJV
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Emmanuel, meaning God with us! Helping us to have self control, driving our Spiritual appetite and giving us the joy of Salvation through the countless gifts of the Spirit. None of which are available on Amazon. Through His word I have stirred up that 🎁 gift and reminded myself of the countless joys the Lord brings to me daily. The first and most important is knowing I have the gift of Salvation that allows me not to fear what this world can do. It also helps me to love and pray for the person behind the mask that I sometimes would like to strangle. Salvation restores and renews my faith when the world tries to make it fade away. And the experience of having fruit in the Kingdom from my work as “The Jesus Chick” is an unexplainable joy because I know that it is the only gift that I can give the God who gave me life.
I pray you have those gifts as well, and that the word of God stirs up the gifts within you! God bless you!!!! The