God, Life and Health

With a week to go until Christmas what should our response to Christmas be?  Do we look to our list of “to do’s” and where and when we need to do what?  My desire for you would be that you are preparing your heart to celebrate the birth of King of Kings and Lord of Lord.  Emmanuel, God with us, this Christmas.  In John MacArthur’s book, “God with Us”, he states, “If you see what Christmas really means, your immediate response will be worship.”  This isn’t what you may think worship is.  Worship is not just something that you do in church on Sunday.  “Worship as Scripture portrays it is alway intensely practical, involving sacrifice (Roman 12:1-2), service to others (Hebrews 13:16), proclaiming the good news of salvation (Romans 15:16), and otherwise living one’s live as a testimony of God’s truth.  A heart of praise and adoration weaves all such activity into the fabric of worship” J. MacArthur.  Christmas is not about what it can be to you, it is what you can be to the world around you.  Be a vessel this Christmas and allow yourself to be poured out to others in the name of our precious Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.