We could take a few days off from all our righteous & unrighteous indignation & brave being kind, generous & maybe humorous with people on here as a grace gift for Christmas, an act of worship to the One whose birth we celebrate. This year’s been hard on your enemies. Bless them.
My reading this morning was Exodus 16 on the manna in the wilderness. I was particularly struck by God’s unwavering insistence that his people trust him by gathering twice the manna on the 6th day and doing no work on the 7th. It occurred to me afresh that our unwillingness to
rest and take a break at sacred times from all our labors, battles and causes are acts of distrust. I mean, after all, what would God do without us? If we don’t stand up for our *side* and for our causes for a few days, who will? Ah, but this is the test, isn’t it? If we can’t
trust God to uphold our causes and restrain our enemies while we rest and worship and remember Christ’s coming, we’ve designated ourselves as junior potters somewhere along the way and perceived God to be clay. Christ “upholds the universe by the word of his power.” (Heb 1:3)
He can handle it if we could use a few days off from all our battles to focus on the gift of Christ the King, the Son of God, the babe born to Mary in Bethlehem. The Savior of the World has come. The Savior of us. He knows what’s important to you. Give it to Jesus for Christmas.
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