Loading...

Keep Christmas alive all year

Tuesday December 26, 2023
Bob Gass
1 min read
0:00 No Audio

“The shepherds returned, glorifying…God for all the things they had heard and seen.” Luke 2:20 NIV

An early pioneer traveling across the Great Plains stopped at the edge of the Grand Canyon. Amazed to discover a vast chasm one mile deep and eighteen miles wide stretching out of sight, he exclaimed, “Something must have happened here!” And as Haddon Robinson observed, “At…Christmas…anyone who stops to look and listen must ask what the hustle and bustle is all about. A thoughtful man or woman seeing the lights…decorations…festivities, and…religious services might also conclude, ‘Something must have happened here!’ Of course, something did happen. We need to tell the world…God has visited our planet. His Son…came to reveal God and to die for our sins (see John 1:1-14). He lived among us that we might live forever with Him.” When the shepherds found the Messiah lying in a manger, they marveled because it “was just as they had been told” (Luke 2:20 NET). As a result, they “returned, glorifying…God for all the things they had heard and seen.” They returned to their fields and flocks with fresh energy. But they still had to return. Jon Walker wrote, “After we celebrate the birth of Jesus, we return to the office…to school…to the things we normally do…God takes us to the mountaintops…shows us great miracles and wonders, but He doesn’t leave us there. It’s in the fields and among the flocks that our faith grows, nurtured in the soil of the mundane…The conflicts over…who cleans up the mess, who gets to go home early, or who gets the biggest piece of pie, test whether it’s really Christ who lives in us.”

The Word for You Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from Celebration Enterprises, Inc. Copyright © 2024


Bible in a Year:

Give the Gift of Daily Hope

Your gift of just $100 can help print and distribute The Word For You Today to those who are struggling and need God's Word to lift them up.

Want daily encouragement? The Word For You Today will be emailed daily to you!

Sign up for The Word For You Today Email

* indicates required

Unsubscribe anytime

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Give the gift of daily Hope to others.

Donate

Get positive, uplifting UCB Radio and The Word For You Today wherever you go with our FREE app. 

Download

Let us stand with you and pray for your concerns.

UCB Radio Prayerline is powered by

Request Prayer

Previous Daily Encouragement

Read Today
Mon December 25

He is all this…and more!

Jack Hayford wrote, “Who is this Babe of Bethlehem…who became flesh…who called forth songs of angels…this Christ of Christmas?…the answer comes back with ringing...

Read more
Sun December 24

A whole new approach

When the angel visited Mary, he said, “Don’t be frightened…God has decided to…bless you!” (Luke 1:30 TLB). Yet when it comes to approaching God...

Read more
Sat December 23

Silent Night?

We have sung the words of that Christmas carol since infancy. But those words actually do not come from scripture. “Silent Night” was a...

Read more

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Top