SUPER-HEROIC

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

 

“The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.” – Jami

 

That hits right between the eyes doesn’t it?

Yet it is true.

Our love for GOD SHOULD be centered in gratefulness for His amazing SAVING grace.

 

In human experience it is a rare thing for one man to give his life for another, even if the latter be a good man, though there have been a few who have had the courage to do it. Yet the proof of God’s amazing love is this: that it was while we were sinners that Christ died for us. – Romans 5:7-8 (PH)

 

GOD DID put His love on the line for us, offering the GIFT of CHRISTMAS, His Son.

 

…she will have a Son, and you shall name him Jesus (meaning ‘Savior’), for he will save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21 (LB)

 

That is our greatest blessing.

No SANTA could or will ever match it.

Not this Friday.

Not ever.

Before His first infant cry, GOD knew what His Christmas gift to us would cost Him. It would cost Him the MOST.

And in spite our sin, in the face of our rebellion, He chose to adopt us via this baby wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger.

 

Lucado tells the story of a master and a servant who went on a journey to a city.

Before the two men could reach the destination, they were caught in a blinding blizzard. They lost their direction and were unable to reach the city before nightfall.

The next morning concerned friends went searching for the two men. They finally found the master, frozen to death, face down in the snow. When they lifted him they found the servant — cold but alive. He survived and told how the master had voluntarily placed himself on top of the servant so the servant could live.

 

That sacrifice was “superheroic”.

 

But even it pales when we contemplate the magnitude of what the CHRIST CHILD would eventually do for us.  Read that from Romans 5 once again. 

In human experience it is a rare thing for one man to give his life for another, even if the latter be a good man, though there have been a few who have had the courage to do it. Yet the proof of God’s amazing love is this: that it was while we were sinners that Christ died for us. – Romans 5:7-8 (PH)

 

We are a couple of days from “SANTA’S” big day.

Enjoy his visit.

Laugh and love around the Christmas tree.

But don’t stop there.

 

Grab a Bible. 

I know many of you do. Open it to Luke 2

Share the first act of redemption and grace’s story with those family and friends.

Reflect.

Pause.

Pray a prayer of thanksgiving for GOD’S SUPERHERO-SIZED love for us.

Relish in the season’s greatest gift. 

Grace.

…every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.”- Escrivá

 

 

I love you ALL!

FREEDOM CHURCH (CHAMPIONS NETWORK)