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We are nearing the end of another eventful
year
The last month which we call December.
The last chance this year to mend our
fences,
And have good thoughts next year to
remember.
God in His mercy is giving us one more
chance
To make peace with Him through His amazing
grace
And to love each other before the year winds
down
Leaving behind old wounds, allow healing to
take place.
This brings to mind His grand scheme of
things
It began in a stable; what an unlikely
place!
Glorious herald angels on a sheep-studded
hill
Brought a message of hope of love and of
grace--
“A Savior is born, a new year is dawning
The a-waited Messiah promised long ago
Has come to earth to live among you
To remove the curse and redeem our soul.”
It boggles my mind and I can’t understand
How the Plan included me; I’m so
undeserving;
Yet the path He chose was a cross on a hill.
He completely paid my ransom, never
swerving.
The message was clear to the shepherds that
night,
“Run to Him and at His crude cradle humbly
bow.
You won’t find Him at the king’s palace so
fine
But lowly, as you, He is the God-man now.”
The call is still resounding over this
sin-cursed earth--
Run to Him, just as you are in sin and
failures, so lost,
In despair and hopeless unable to help
yourself.
What began in a stable was paid for you in
full on a cross.
You don’t have to understand: I surely don’t
and can’t.
Why did He do it? Not because I was
deserving, so why?
Just simply because He loved me more than
His own life.
From the stable to the cross, now empty, He
reigns on high.
Don’t let this last month of December slip
away this year
Before making peace with the One in the
stable and on the cross.
Be sure to mend your fences so love can’t
slip out,
Forgive and amend freely like you received,
without cost.
Consider this: If we measured all personal
slights, bruises and
neglects by the stable and the cross; if we
aligned everything that happened to us with
eternity, how insignificant they would
appear
in that light. We will never encounter anything that Jesus will not
fully understand and be sympathetic with,
nothing that He doesn’t
have an answer and solution for. What
better time to make peace
where there is misunderstanding, express
love in unlovable situations,
in short, to be like Christ--than on His birthday.
I believe this would be the best birthday
gift we could give Him.
First, to accept Him as Savior and then to live like Him. In
December celebrate His birthday by living in
love; that is what He
does! Let January be a new beginning in
deeper
commitment to Christ.
Don’t carry anything over into the new year
that you
can’t take to Heaven with you!
He would be pleased with that birthday gift.
December 15, 2003
Delores Adams
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Alice's Legacy
Remembering
Alice
The "Handkerchief" has
been anointed and prayed over by
several believers who care about you and
want to help you
realize your full potential in Christ Jesus
Our Lord.
~The
Ten Commandments~
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