It is Christmas Day 2008, and upon this day in the one of the oddest, bleakest points of our nation's financial history....to include our own government basically changing before our own eyes into what more resembles a socialistic form of government, I pray for the state of human kind around the globe. The financial distress that is occurring here at home is not just ours, it is owned and felt around the world. To say that we are alone in this would be madness. Of course, shoring up of businesses by the government simply put means government ownership. Government is not supposed to own things, and simply put a free market is not supposed to be shore up when in distress.
I asked Jesus to be the guest at this years' Christmas activities, just as I have for many years past. He is the center of my focus on Christmas. He was born not truly on Christmas day, but as a tradition, the day has been chosen by Christians past to revel in the day of Jesus/Yeshua's arrival as the promised one, the savior of the world. This year I prayed a great deal on December 23rd, about how and what is the purpose of my life. I feel closer each time I pray to God through Jesus, that I simply seem to do it more and more.
Today, I spoke with my mother, GOD love her. I try to be a good daughter. I want her to know I care for her. I recognize a lot of fear within my mother about God, what His word says, and what our mission as Christians is to do. She told me today, oddly enough, that she doesn't try to influence other people or lead them to God, because she feels she simply doesn't know enough to do so.
WHAT?!? ok, well, let me see, what does one say to something so incredulous? I know well what I said, and I did not pull punches or mince words.
Honestly, I know that my burden to bear, my mission in life, my purpose is to follow the road before me the way that Jesus said for the disciples to do. Do I believe myself to be a disciple....no, women are not to be disciples and neither are they to hold places of esteem in the church. I know the flack for saying that, but the Bible is very clear about this. I do however believe that I am to share the gift of salvation with all whom I come in contact with. I am to ask nothing for myself in return, as I have my miracle....the clean heart that Jesus provides me so that I may have eternal life. I am to share the miracles I know, and I am to sew so that I may reap from the fruits of my earthly labors. My job as a person who has received the gift of salvation, is to share that rare gift that closes the gap that separates a sinning man/woman from his/her GOD. I am to share it because that is what ultimately makes it all worthwhile. God was divine in the master plan, though so many that I know fail to recognize the path that is set so simply before us. If we have the gift sharing the gift is something that we want to do, and it is a driving part of our souls. This is truly the job of each and every receiver of the gift of salvation. God gives it freely, and we should share it freely. I believe that the church is not supposed to have established such a presence in the world, and I believe that those who build worldly riches are not the ones that are doing God's true will. Of course, many do a lot of good, but too much greed, surrounds too much money....and the Bible specifically tells us that it is easier for a Camel to travel through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven.
I have people who know what I believe, who say....
"Oh...that is Judaism...or what religion is that?"
when I speak to them of revering and remembering the Sabbath day....
"Oh...the Bible says not to follow those who claim to know everything...."
What I find the most amazing about both of these sayings is ....Isn't it Judeo-Christian? Me, know everything...funny....ok, the truth is simply thus:
"The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I truly know." I learn knew things everyday. Every time I read the Bible, God reveals things through His Wisdom at that time that I need that I failed to recognize the times before. No one knows everything....about anything. I know how to do income taxes and have been doing them for almost 20 years, but I don't know everything there is to know about them. I learn new things every year. I know a great deal about the Bible, but to say I am a theologian, no I must admit, I am not. I know what I do know by the grace of God. I love God's Word, but I take something new from it each time I open it. God gives me what I need when I need it, from the Bible and in life, otherwise.
I hope that this Christmas is a grand one for everyone, and I pray that the love of God is physically felt among you those who believe and those who do not. I pray that God through His divine gift of salvation has an awe inspiring presence in the lives of every human on this planet....may you feel the Love and Divine presence of God in your soul.
Merry Christmas.
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