Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Merry Christmas to you all! We Love you all!

THE VERY FIRST KING-SIZE BED

I have been very busy the last two days and yesterday moved Gretchen back to Albuquerque…we have to go back as her car is still there……it has been a long two day’s……..

I have much stirring in my spirit this day…………..

I will do my best to share with you as the Lord leads………

I beg all of you to be full of the Holy Spirit so you can hear from Him and the messages that are intended for just you.

I have had an experience that will be with me the rest of my life, I am still processing it.

I get messages all the time from the Holy Spirit, but this one has had a very huge impact on me.

I am mourning and I am celebrating at the same time.

I could have not accepted the role that God has chosen me to do.

I could have said no to where God told me to go.

I could have not heard the message.

I am just a simple man who loves our Lord Jesus Christ and tries to serve the best I can.

Many of you are to young to remember this, but we used to have to “tune-in” our radios for the best reception, you had to turn the dial…these modern radios drive me nuts……..I like the feel of the old radio’s to get the best reception!

That is what we have to do with God……get the best reception.

Tune into God.

Tune out the “nothing noise” of the world!

The Holy Spirit is our messenger.

If you do not hear God, someone could die.

Yes, you may have a role to help an individual and God is calling you and you don’t show up.

I cannot write about all the people FGGAM is helping right now, it is draining, but the Holy Spirit recharges us.

I was told to come the other day by a person who wanted help………..then on the day I was told to come I was told NOT TO COME! COME TOMORROW……….The text messages were all in cap’s!

LISTEN TO ME DON’T COME! Can you hear the hurt? The pain?

I did not answer……….

then another text…………TURN AROUND DO NOT COME!

This was repeated another two to three times.

The Lord said go………and I texted back, I am coming, this is crazy!

and then the return text…….Okay I am sorry………when will you be here.

When you are filled with the Holy Spirit and receive a direct “order” to go, GO! Even if the world says NO!

All I can say, as I am still processing this whole God event, I was very shook up after that recent day and I am still a bit shook.

I was able to talk and help my friend , we are on the right track to healing in our Lord.

God has shown me that if I would not have answered the call it would have not been a good outcome.

I tell you this story to encourage you, no implore you to be filled with the Holy Spirit and not miss a call from God.

God has put Sharon and I on this path of ministering to people one at a time.

I weep as I type this………one person can take up to weeks to help if you give them the attention God wants you to give them.

We are on this path…we are just simple people following our call, we are low on the “things” of this world, we are selling off personal items and storing our treasure in heaven.

This world we live in is a busy place……..people going crazy buying presents and all sorts of stuff, spending money on things that will rust and wear out.

What will not wear out? What God tell’s you to do with everything you have will not wear out.God may be telling you to be completely sold out for Him and leave your possessions behind and walk for Him.

Jesus gave His followers the key to living a victorious life on earth: “Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you.”

That promise, as we know from John 14-15, Acts 1, and other Bible verses in the New Testament, was the Holy Spirit. The Promise of Jesus to His disciples at the time of His ascension is the same Promise given by Jesus to those of us who are followers or disciples of Jesus today! AMEN!

Jesus asked, “Who is it you want?”

“Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied.

“I am he,” Jesus answered.

Who do you want? What do you want?

Please keep us in your prayers.

Let us pray this day for Jolene who was told yesterday she has cancer, she is a dear friend of ours. Let us pray for FBI agent Andrew Knutson who has a shoulder injury and this has happened in training,Please pray.he just got back from a tour of duty from Afghanistan and is training for a domestic tour and has a wife and three young sons and needs to be closer to family.

I post this again on prayer………….

‎”A Christian community either lives by the intercessory prayers of its members for one another, or the community will be destroyed. I can no longer condemn or hate other Christians for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble they cause me. In intercessory prayer the face that may have been strange and intolerable to me is transformed into the face of one for whom Christ died, the face of a pardoned sinner. That is a blessed discovery for the Christian who is beginning to offer intercessory prayer for others. As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

THE OLD PATHS

I liked the old paths, when
Moms were at home.
Dads were at work.
Brothers went into the army.
And sisters got married BEFORE having children!

Crime did not pay;
Hard work did;
And people knew the difference.

Moms could cook;
Dads would work;
Children would behave..

Husbands were loving;
Wives were supportive;
And children were polite.

Women wore the jewelry;
And Men wore the pants.
Women looked like ladies;
Men looked like gentlemen;
And children looked decent.

People loved the truth,
And hated a lie;
They came to church to get IN,
Not to get OUT!

Hymns sounded Godly, not secular;
Sermons sounded helpful;
Rejoicing sounded normal;
And crying sounded sincere.

Cursing was wicked;
Drunkedness was evil;

The flag was honored;
America was beautiful;
And God was welcome!

We read the Bible in public;
Prayed in school;
And preached from house to house
To be called an American was worth dying for;
To be called a Christian was worth living for;
To be called a traitor was a shame!

Sex was a personal word.
Homosexual was an unheard of word,
And abortion was an illegal word.

Preachers preached because they had a message;
And Christians rejoiced because they had the VICTORY!
Preachers preached from the Bible;
Singers sang from the heart;
And sinners turned to the Lord to be SAVED!
A new birth meant a new life;
Salvation meant a changed life;
Following Christ led to eternal life.

Being a preacher meant you proclaimed the word of God;
Being a deacon meant you would serve the Lord;
Being a Christian meant you would live for Jesus;
And being a sinner meant someone was praying for you!

Laws were based on the Bible;
Homes read the Bible;
And churches taught the Bible, not politics.

Preachers were more interested in new converts,
Than new clothes and new cars.
God was worshiped;
Christ was exalted;
And the Holy Spirit was respected.

Church was where you found Christians
On the Lord’s day, rather than in the garden,
On the creek bank, on the golf course,
Or being entertained somewhere else.

I still like the old paths the best! < BR>

“The Old Paths” was written by a retired minister who lives
In Tennes

Thanks to Darlene for the “Old Paths”

Merry Christmas!
For God’s Glory Alone in the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
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Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Thanks for stopping by for a CUP. The CUP is full this day. We have much to share. We are blessed to have had two write up’s sent to us from Darlene and Leslie. Leslie writes on Restoration.

Today read John 18….the whole chapter………Read the Words of Jesus like our headline today, as Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”

What are you and I doing with the CUP the Father has given us?

verse 6 “I am he.” said Jesus

First these thoughts………

God keeps working in my life and the life of Sharon, these words of Oswald Chamber tell our story…….

“Obey the call of Jesus. Keep yourself before God for this one thing only—-my utmost for his highest. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and Him alone.”

I am on a path that some cannot figure out, but it is the call of Jesus me and Sharon are walking.

Chambers says, “Surrender your will to God absolutely and irrevocably.”

We are completely sold out for Jesus more than ever……..there is so much freedom in this…….

It is quite a journey!

If you’re not the most loving person that the lost people around you know – that’s a fail. Pastor James McDonald

I’ve lived long enough to say without hesitation that only Christʼs perspective can replace our resentment with rejoicing. Chuck Swindoll

Paul sent this in after yesterdays post:

Amen Dewey…… I think we need to step away from churches that tread lightly around issues like abortion and towards those not afraid of Biblical truth. Paul

The Lord has really filled our CUP today……WOW! We have a wonderful write up by Leslie Montgomery on Restoration. Last night I spent time counseling a women in her late 60’s whose family has been torn apart. We are praying for restoration for Carmen’s family, of course this really hit’s home at Christmas time. My heart breaks at all the hurt in the World, all the things that people wish they never did, getting mad, swearing at their loved ones, not talking for years, holding grudges, drugs, alcohol, abuse, etc…….

Let us turn to the Word of God for Restoration……..

Psalm 40:1-17 ESV

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. …

Psalm 66:12 ESV

You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.

Acts 3:19-21 ESV

Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

God restores, not man or medicine. AMEN!

Let us be Salt and Light to the World and give people hope in our Lord Jesus Christ!

I love my Bible where the Words of Jesus are in Red! if you do not have one, buy yourself an early Christmas gift!

C. S. Lewis shared The Chronicles of Narnia‘s photo.

‎”And whatever strange things may happen to you, let nothing turn your mind from following the signs.”
~ The Silver Chair

The main object of Christianity is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Yesterday we talked about the Greed in Sports and Society,,,read this……..

24/7 Wall St. reviewed how Americans spend money. One of the conclusions of this analysis is that consumer spending is relatively alive and well, despite the recession. This may mean that Americans continue to be over-leveraged. US citizens have, in general, brought down their indebtedness. However, holiday spending rose substantially from last year, and the extent to which Americans feel poor has declined now that the recession has ended. Americans spend about 15% of their household incomes on things that they do not need to satisfy their vices or to keep themselves amused.

We examined the changes in spending patterns over the course of one generation–20 years. Americans have certainly not cut back on vices because of the recent difficult economy, with the exception of casinos which were hurt badly by the slowdown. Money spent on alcohol and tobacco is about the same as it was two decades ago. Sin apparently is not beaten down by hard times.

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was one of the core sources of information for the 24/7 analysis. We looked spending habits in 1989 and then again in 2009. The average household expenditure two years ago was $49,000. That is measured against household income before taxes of about $63,000. Real incomes have not risen over the course of the last ten years, something that has not happened in any decade since the Depression. Over the course of the last two decades the increase in real income was only 10%.
The patterns of how people spend money on things has changed. People spend much more on television, radio, and sound systems than they did in 1989. They also spend more on pets and toys.
The BLS divides households into nine income groups. The lowest is households with income less than $5,000 a year. It is hard to imagine how such a household could exist. But, the government definition includes people who rent rooms or other living spaces, so in reality a college student or group of college students would qualify. The highest income group contains households with incomes of over $70,000 a year.
24/7 reviewed how American households spend their money and identified categories in which the expenditures are purely discretionary as a way to set its final list of ways people spend money on unnecessary items. We removed all expenses that could be considered essential to maintain a reasonable living, good health and a steady job. Then, we identified the ten categories of unnecessary purchases which accounted for the largest part of U.S. household expenditures. We also broke the data into several demographics, including income before taxes, regions of the country, and the number of people in each household.
The ten categories of unnecessary purchase can be balanced against the ability of Americans to save money or pay off debts. The “average” American household which has an income of $63,000 spends more than $8,000 on goods and services it does not actually need. The credit crisis might not have been so bad if all that money had been put into savings accounts between 1989 and 2009, but the period would not have been nearly as fun.
10. Apparel Products and Services
Annual Amount Spent Per Household: $249
% of Total Annual Expenses: 0.5%
This category includes unnecessary purchases such as clothing rentals and storage, dry cleaning, jewelry, and watch repair. Clothing and shoe repairs, which are also included, are rarely considered a waste, but they account for a relatively modest portion of this category. The average amount spent per household is $249. This is slightly down from the 1989 amount, which was $266.
9. Tobacco
Annual Amount Spent Per Household: $380
% of Total Annual Expenses: 0.8%
The average household spends more than $380 each year on tobacco products and smoking supplies, which includes cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and chewing tobacco. It is worth remembering that this average includes households where no one pays for tobacco products. Despite this fact, tobacco’s portion of the average household’s budget, 0.8%, is larger than what Americans spend on fresh fruit and milk combined. A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day in New York state will spend more than $4,000 a year, which is roughly 10% of the average American income before taxes.
8. Entertainment Equipment and Services, Nonessential
Annual Amount Spent Per Household: $400
% of Total Annual Expenses: 0.8%
Products in this category include bicycles, trailers, camping equipment, hunting and fishing equipment, sports equipment, boats, photographic equipment and supplies. The average expenditures dedicated to items in this category among all households is $400. The greatest average amount, $870, occurs among households with a husband, wife, and an eldest child age 6 to 17 years. In households with only one parent and at least one child under 18, the amount drops to $188. In 1989, the average amount for all households was slightly less, at $369.
7. Alcohol
Annual Amount Spent Per Household: $435
% of Total Annual Expenses: 0.9%
In 2009, the average American household spent $435 on beer, wine, hard liquor, and mixed drinks. This is more than the amount spent on all non-alcoholic beverages combined. Despite the higher prices often paid in restaurants and bars, the majority of money spent is on alcohol is for drinks consumed in the home. Households consisting only of a husband and wife spent an average of $582, roughly $400 more than single-parent households. On average, household spending on alcohol increased 35% from 1989, but the percent of their total budget spent on drinks is about the same: 1% in 1989 versus 0.9% in 2009.
6. Fees and Admissions
Annual Amount Spent Per Household: $628
% of Total Annual Expenses: 1.3%
In 2009, the average household spent $628 on fees and admissions for sporting events, films, and concerts. This category also includes club memberships and movie rentals. These costs are more than what the average household spent on personal care products. People in the Northeast spent $780 on this category, about $370 more than those in the South. The average annual expenses for these products are nearly double what they were in 1989, when the average movie ticket cost $4, about half of what people spend today.
5. Lodging, Vacation Homes and Hotels
Annual Amount Spent Per Household: $672
% of Total Annual Expenses: 1.4%
The average American household spent more than $670 on vacation homes and hotels. While this is more than the $485 spent twenty years ago, Americans are actually spending less than they used to on their total budgets – 1.7% in 1989 versus 1.4% in 2009. As might be expected, households which make more than $70,000 each year spent far more than the average American: $1,511 in 2009. Households in the Northeast spent $924 on vacation homes and hotels, nearly double what those in the South pay each year.
4. Pets, Toys, Hobbies, and Playground Equipment
Annual Amount Spent Per Household: $690
% of Total Annual Expenses: 1.4%
The average household spent nearly $700 on pets, toys, hobbies, and playground equipment. Nearly 80% of the expenses in this category come from pets, including food and veterinary bills. In contrast, households only spent $140 on toys and games. Families with the oldest child under 6 only spent $670. Families with a child older than 18 spent nearly $1,200. Most of this difference comes from significantly more spending on veterinary services. Households in the Western United States spent $800 on pets, toys and games – 20% more than those in the Midwest. These expenses have increased from 0.9% of household budgets in 1989 to 1.4% in 2009.
3. Television, Radio, and Sound Equipment
Amount Spent Per Household: $975
% of Total Annual Expenses: 2%
In 2009, the average household spent $975 on television, radio, and sound equipment, including cable TV, video game hardware, and movie players. This amount is up from $429 in 1989. For comparison, the average amount spent on reading material, which is another household expenditure category, was only $109. The group which spent the greatest portion of their budget in this category, 2.5%, was those who made between $5,000 to $9,999. The group which spent the least was the group making the most. Households earning $70,000 or more spent only 1.7% of their budget on items in this category.
2. Gifts
Amount Spent Per Household: $1,067
% of Total Annual Expenses: 2.2%
Although Americans spend a great deal of money on unnecessary goods and services for themselves, they also spend a large amount on gifts for others. The average amount spent on gifts (including housing, apparel, and entertainment items) per household in 2009 was $1,067. This amount has increased from $887 in 2009. Households with incomes of less than $5,000 spent an average of $479, while households earning between $5,000 and $9,999 spent an average $261, the lowest amount.
1. Food Away From Home
Amount Spent Per Household: $2,619
% of Total Annual Expenses: 5.3%
Food away from home includes all meals at fast food, take-out, delivery, full-service restaurants, and at vending machines and food carts. In 2009, the average household spent $2,619 on food away from home, compared to an average $1,762 in 1989. The group which spent the most in this category, relative to household income, are those which make less than $5,000 a year. This group spent an average 6.2% of their total budget on food away from home. Those making between $5,000 and $9,999 spent 4.7%.
–Douglas McIntyre, Michael Sauter, Charles Stockdale
Let us go into prayer as we read this……….

‎”A Christian community either lives by the intercessory prayers of its members for one another, or the community will be destroyed. I can no longer condemn or hate other Christians for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble they cause me. In intercessory prayer the face that may have been strange and intolerable to me is transformed into the face of one for whom Christ died, the face of a pardoned sinner. That is a blessed discovery for the Christian who is beginning to offer intercessory prayer for others. As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Please pray for 2 year old Elijah who is very sick, pray for Dallas who has West Nile. Got a late night text from Michael Hoffman that his sister-in-law is in serious condition in a Sioux Falls, South Dakota hospital and his wife flew out yesterday to be there. Pray for Carmen’s family to be restored and all families that are struggling, we pray. Pray for Sammy that she will fully see the ways of our Lord Jesus Christ. Pray for Karen who suffered brain damage over a year ago and lays in a nursing home with a feeding tube, she is just 27 years of age. Please keep Randy Thom in your prayers and give thanks for what the Lord is doing in his life.

We ask you for your continued prayers for us here at FGGAM. As Sharon and I walk this road, this new road that the Lord has for us, your prayers, your emails, calls mean so much! Thanks to all of you who have made love offerings to the Ministry.

Darlene sent this in and then we have Leslie Montgomery on Restoration……….

The old man sat in his gas station on a cold Christmas Eve. He hadn’t been anywhere in years since his wife had passed away. It was just another day to him. He …

didn’t hate Christmas, just couldn’t find a reason to celebrate. He was sitting there looking at the snow that had been falling for the last hour and wondering what it was all about when the door opened and a homeless man stepped through.

Instead of throwing the man out, Old George as he was known by his customers, told the man to come and sit by the heater and warm up. “Thank you, but I don’t mean to intrude,” said the stranger. “I see you’re busy, I’ll just go.” “Not without something hot in your belly.” George said.

He turned and opened a wide mouth Thermos and handed it to the stranger. “It ain’t much, but it’s hot and tasty. Stew … Made it myself. When you’re done, there’s coffee and it’s fresh.”

Just at that moment he heard the “ding” of the driveway bell. “Excuse me, be right back,” George said. There in the driveway was an old ’53 Chevy. Steam was rolling out of the front. The driver was panicked. “Mister can you help me!” said the driver, with a deep Spanish accent. “My wife is with child and my car is broken.” George opened the hood. It was bad. The block looked cracked from the cold, the car was dead. “You ain’t going in this thing,” George said as he turned away.

“But Mister, please help …” The door of the office closed behind George as he went inside. He went to the office wall and got the keys to his old truck, and went back outside. He walked around the building, opened the garage, started the truck and drove it around to where the couple was waiting. “Here, take my truck,” he said. “She ain’t the best thing you ever looked at, but she runs real good.”

George helped put the woman in the truck and watched as it sped off into the night. He turned and walked back inside the office. “Glad I gave ’em the truck, their tires were shot too. That ‘ol truck has brand new .” George thought he was talking to the stranger, but the man had gone. The Thermos was on the desk, empty, with a used coffee cup beside it. “Well, at least he got something in his belly,” George thought.

George went back outside to see if the old Chevy would start. It cranked slowly, but it started. He pulled it into the garage where the truck had been. He thought he would tinker with it for something to do. Christmas Eve meant no customers. He discovered the block hadn’t cracked, it was just the bottom hose on the radiator. “Well, shoot, I can fix this,” he said to

himself. So he put a new one on.

“Those tires ain’t gonna get ’em through the winter either.” He took the snow treads off of his wife’s old Lincoln. They were like new and he wasn’t going to drive the car anyway.

As he was working, he heard shots being fired. He ran outside and beside a police car an officer lay on the cold ground. Bleeding from the left shoulder, the officer moaned, “Please help me.”

George helped the officer inside as he remembered the training he had received in the Army as a medic. He knew the wound needed attention. “Pressure to stop the bleeding,” he thought. The uniform company had been there that morning and had left clean shop towels. He used those and duct tape to bind the wound. “Hey, they say duct tape can fix anythin’,” he said, trying to make the policeman feel at ease.

“Something for pain,” George thought. All he had was the pills he used for his back. “These ought to work.” He put some water in a cup and gave the policeman the pills. “You hang in there, I’m going to get you an ambulance.”

The phone was dead. “Maybe I can get one of your buddies on that there talk box out in your car.” He went out only to find that a bullet had gone into the dashboard destroying the two way radio.

He went back in to find the policeman sitting up. “Thanks,” said the officer. “You could have left me there. The guy that shot me is still in the area.”

George sat down beside him, “I would never leave an injured man in the Army and I ain’t gonna leave you.” George pulled back the bandage to check for bleeding. “Looks worse than what it is. Bullet passed right through ‘ya. Good thing it missed the important stuff though. I think with time your gonna be right as rain.”

George got up and poured a cup of coffee. “How do you take it?” he asked. “None for me,” said the officer. “Oh, yer gonna drink this. Best in the city. Too bad I ain’t got no donuts.” The officer laughed and winced at the same time.

The front door of the office flew open. In burst a young man with a gun. “Give me all your cash! Do it now!” the young man yelled. His hand was shaking and George could tell that he had never done anything like this before.

“That’s the guy that shot me!” exclaimed the officer.

“Son, why are you doing this?” asked George, “You need to put the cannon away. Somebody else might get hurt.”

The young man was confused. “Shut up old man, or I’ll shoot you, too. Now give me the cash!”

The cop was reaching for his gun. “Put that thing away,” George said to the cop, “we got one too many in here now.”

He turned his attention to the young man. “Son, it’s Christmas Eve. If you need money, well then, here. It ain’t much but it’s all I got. Now put that pea shooter away.”

George pulled $150 out of his pocket and handed it to the young man, reaching for the barrel of the gun at the same time. The young man released his grip on the gun, fell to his knees and began to cry. “I’m not very good at this am I? All I wanted was to buy something for my wife and son,” he went on. “I’ve lost my job, my rent is due, my car got repossessed last week.”

George handed the gun to the cop. “Son, we all get in a bit of squeeze now and then. The road gets hard sometimes, but we make it through the best we can.”

He got the young man to his feet, and sat him down on a chair across from the cop. “Sometimes we do stupid things.” George handed the young man a cup of coffee. “Bein’ stupid is one of the things that makes us human. Comin’ in here with a gun ain’t the answer. Now sit there and get warm and we’ll sort this thing out.”

The young man had stopped crying. He looked over to the cop. “Sorry I shot you. It just went off. I’m sorry officer.” “Shut up and drink your coffee ” the cop said. George could hear the sounds of sirens outside. A police car and an ambulance skidded to a halt. Two cops came through the door, guns drawn. “Chuck! You ok?” one of the cops asked the wounded officer.

“Not bad for a guy who took a bullet. How did you find me?”

“GPS locator in the car. Best thing since sliced bread. Who did this?” the other cop asked as he approached the young man.

Chuck answered him, “I don’t know. The guy ran off into the dark. Just dropped his gun and ran.”

George and the young man both looked puzzled at each other.

“That guy work here?” the wounded cop continued. “Yep,” George said, “just hired him this morning. Boy lost his job.”

The paramedics came in and loaded Chuck onto the stretcher. The young man leaned over the wounded cop and whispered, “Why?”

Chuck just said, “Merry Christmas boy … and you too, George, and thanks for everything.”

“Well, looks like you got one doozy of a break there. That ought to solve some of your problems.”

George went into the back room and came out with a box. He pulled out a ring box. “Here you go, something for the little woman. I don’t think Martha would mind. She said it would come in handy some day.”

The young man looked inside to see the biggest diamond ring he ever saw. “I can’t take this,” said the young man. “It means something to you.”

“And now it means something to you,” replied George. “I got my memories. That’s all I need.”

George reached into the box again. An airplane, a car and a truck appeared next. They were toys that the oil company had left for him to sell. “Here’s something for that little man of yours.”

The young man began to cry again as he handed back the $150 that the old man had handed him earlier.

“And what are you supposed to buy Christmas dinner with? You keep that too,” George said. “Now git home to your family.”

The young man turned with tears streaming down his face. “I’ll be here in the morning for work, if that job offer is still good.”

“Nope. I’m closed Christmas day,” George said. “See ya the day after.”

George turned around to find that the stranger had returned. “Where’d you come from? I thought you left?”

“I have been here. I have always been here,” said the stranger. “You say you don’t celebrate Christmas. Why?”

“Well, after my wife passed away, I just couldn’t see what all the bother was. Puttin’ up a tree and all seemed a waste of a good pine tree. Bakin’ cookies like I used to with Martha just wasn’t the same by myself and besides I was gettin’ a little chubby.”

The stranger put his hand on George’s shoulder. “But you do celebrate the holiday, George. You gave me food and drink and warmed me when I was cold and hungry. The woman with child will bear a son and he will become a great doctor.

The policeman you helped will go on to save 19 people from being killed by terrorists. The young man who tried to rob you will make you a rich man and not take any for himself. “That is the spirit of the season and you keep it as good as any man.”

George was taken aback by all this stranger had said. “And how do you know all this?” asked the old man.

“Trust me, George. I have the inside track on this sort of thing. And when your days are done you will be with Martha again.”

The stranger moved toward the door. “If you will excuse me, George, I have to go now. I have to go home where there is a big celebration planned.”

George watched as the old leather jacket and the torn pants that the stranger was wearing turned into a white robe. A golden light began to fill the room.

“You see, George … it’s My birthday. Merry Christmas.”

George fell to his knees and replied, “Happy Birthday, Lord Jesus”

Merry Christmas!!

This story is better than any greeting card.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GOD BLESS!

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Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Praise God you are here today with us!

In John 18 when Jesus is arrested in verse 19 He says, “I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret. Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.”

This same Jesus would have us look at the eye’s of Baby Eden this morning and listen for His message………

Look at this picture of Baby Eden……….that should make you stop and pray and give thanks. Sharon and I attended her Dedication Saturday night at the Lighthouse Church in Chimayo. We all have prayed for this little angel and she is doing wonderful, born in August at 2 pounds and her intestines outside of her body, she is healed at 4 months and at 10 pounds! PRAISE GOD! Here Baby Eden is with her Daddy.

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The picture here of Rick the Manager of our Local Circle K store getting loved on by Buffy Anne and Reno. Rick just lost his 10 year old Pup and so Buffy and Reno go every Saturday to love on him. These may seem like simple things to you……and they are…..sharing the love of our Lord Jesus Christ is just plain simple!!!

The Lord just keeps confirming to me and Sharon that He has us right where He wants us…….serving people one at a time.

When we did the TV program with Pastor Leonard this past weekend, we spoke to people as individuals as Pastor Leonard talked about Biblical Prophecy leading up to the birth of Jesus.

I share this all with you this day, to challenge us all to look at people as individuals to see the eye’s of Jesus when we look at people.

To slow down and listen as to what Jesus may have you do.

I don;t always write or say the most popular things, I try to talk and write with the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. This past weekend I shared that they say we are on a “fiscal Cliff”…..no we are on a “Moral Cliff”

Chuck Akeley I love it! Moral Cliff! That is the truth… Pastor Moede, you have a way of simply saying what so many of us secretly want to say, or couldn’t put it into words…

Pastor Mark Tross says, Dewey you say what most people want to say, but they don’t have the guts.”

Let’s just say we all need to be more BOLD for our Lord Jesus Christ!

When John Wesley was asked why he was successful as a Pastor, he told the interviewer, “I just meet people where they are lonely and give them the gospel.”

We don’t have to Preach or talk in anger.

This past weekend I asked people to stop and think of the last 2 weekends in the NFL. A KC Chief player kills his girlfriend and then kills himself at the teams headquarters, and the game goes on. This past weekend a Dallas Cowboy player kills his teammate as he was driving drunk and had a wreck in which is teammate was killed, and the game goes on.

We have become numb to senseless death. The games goes on…….no time to just stop and mourn the death here and the tragedies. To learn. This set’s an example to our youth who love the NFL..oh, a player shot and killed his girlfriend and then killed himself and they still played the game, and then this Dallas Cowboy drunk has a wreck in which his teammate is killed. I am sorry but there is a correlation here with what has happened to our Society of greed, money, sex. etc…… we still have to have our football. Do we not see how crazy this cycle is? Where have we put God in this passion we have for NFL and other sports?

We have created a game, whether it’s football, baseball, basketball..of MONEY and DRUGS. Oh this is not going to be a popular post! Sports is a reflection of our society.

As most of you know I in the past have been a HUGE baseball fan…….but that dwindles each year it seems as to what the sport has become. MONEY and DRUGS and TAINTED records.

To me the right thing to do was to call of all games the least two weekends and stop this cycle of madness and pay attention to what is going on here, the destruction of individuals.
The God I know cares about people, individuals, not whether a game get’s played or not. God has been warning us here in the United States about the “MORAL CLIFF” we are on.

But it seems most of us are not paying attention.

Now I want to share with you an article on how precious life is…each life………….Let us today stop and have a CUP of coffee and tea and read this………pray………listen for the Lord to speak to you. The story of Baby Eden is so precious, tell the world! Tell the World how each life is important to God.

LIFE IS PRECIOUS!
Selected Scripture
by
Pastor Stephen Bond
Summit Christian Church
PO Box 50626
Sparks, NV 89435
Introduction
The challenge I face with this morning’s message is overwhelming. On the one hand, we face a gruesome national crisis. Listen friends! In the past twenty-five years our nation has experienced a holocaust greater than what occurred under Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Historians estimate that six million Jews were exterminated by Nazi Germany and twenty million people died under Stalin’s tyranny in the Soviet Union. However, in the past twenty-five years in the United States of America, over 35 million lives have been lost through abortion.
Several years ago a video was produced called “The Silent Scream.” The video recorded an abortion actually taking place and as the tiny baby was being killed, you could clearly see it trying to scream out in pain. Yet there was no sound. No scream. The as yet unborn vocal chords were silenced by the mother’s womb, which rather than being a safe haven to grow and develop, had instead become a tomb, a place of death. And the silent scream continues as over 4,000 voices of unborn children perish daily in this country through abortion.
And the unspeakable tragedy of these silent dying voices is infinitely compounded by the deafening silence of the majority of the Christians who live in this nation. By in large, the believing church in America has been silent, quietly allowing the holocaust to continue while we close our eyes and plug our ears, ignoring the nightmare, hoping it will disappear.
Years ago, Pam and I were in Germany and we visited Dachau, one of the most infamous Nazi death camps. Now a museum, I remember weeping as I walked through the displays showing the emaciated prisoners. Along with the other visitors that day, we whispered as we spoke. It was as if we were somehow linked to the souls of the hundreds of thousands that had died at Dachau. When we arrived at the showers where the Jews were gassed to death and the ovens where their remains were incinerated, we were left speechless. There are no words in the human language to describe the unspeakable horrors that happened in that place.

In a similar way, by in large, the church in America has sat by and done nothing about abortion. Meanwhile, 35 million deaths have taken place. The Bible speaks about sins of commission (things we shouldn’t do) and sins of omission (things we ought to do but don’t). James 4:17 tells us “Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” For many of us, and I include myself, our silence on abortion falls into the category of a sin of omission. We’ve known we should have done something, but we’ve stayed silent. And the silence of the majority of American Christians has contributed to the holocaust continuing unabated for twenty-five years. So my first challenge today is to wake us up to the blight of abortion so that we can begin making a difference.
But I have a second challenge. Studies have shown that about 20% of the women who have abortions call themselves “committed believers.” In other words, one out of five women who walk into an abortion clinic on Monday morning, were probably in church the Sunday before. If that’s true, then I realize that I’m probably speaking to a number of people this morning who’ve been affected directly by abortion.
If you’re woman, you may have had an abortion in the past. Or if you’re a man, you may have encouraged someone to have one. Maybe even paid for it. In either case, you may be sitting there now feeling guilty for it and the last thing I want to do is heap more guilt on you. I want to be very clear this morning: the blood of Christ covers all our sin. The Bible declares if we repent and ask forgiveness, God forgives our sin. All sin. Including abortion. No ifs, ands or buts. 100% guaranteed.
So, on the one hand, my first challenge is to wake us up to the huge sin that abortion represents in our land. But on other hand, I don’t want to stir up false guilt in anyone for past sins that have already been forgiven. But there’s one more challenge and this is where I’m most affected. It’s the challenge of doing something about it. After all, if we’re honest, most of us would admit that abortion is just too big of an issue, too huge of a problem, so we opt not to do anything at all because we don’t think our efforts will make any difference. That’s a lie, but we’ve believed it.
And one by one, Satan has convinced us to sit on the sidelines with our hands folded in our laps while 4,000 silent screams happen every day. This can’t continue without God’s judgment eventually coming on our nation. With that in mind, my goal today is that every one of us would take one additional step forward in upholding the value of human life. At the conclusion of this message, I’m going to give several practical steps that we can take which will help make a difference.
Now, let’s review what the Bible says about the issue of life:
1. God creates life and he’s intimately involved in our development. Genesis declares that “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them….The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living being.” No life exists apart from God. He’s the Creator. We can’t take one breath, nor will our heart beat even one beat apart from God’s intervening grace that gives life.
David writes in Psalm 139, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth your eyes saw my unformed body.” With his infinite skill as the consummate Master Craftsman, the Lord fashioned our bodies, cell by meticulous cell, and formed us in our mother’s womb.
The miracle of a developing child is astounding. A baby’s heart begins to beat 18 to 25 days after conception. Brain waves can be recorded at 40 days. At 11 to 12 weeks, a baby squints, swallows, makes a fist, has fingerprints, kicks and sucks its thumb. Not long ago, a couple from our church had a child born several months premature. It weighed only 1 lb, 7 oz, but it survived and is doing well. God gives life. And life begins at conception long before a baby takes its first breath. Abortion is wrong because it snuffs out a life. Abortion stops a beating heart.
2. All life is precious to God.
Our society today places particular value on people who can contribute. People are valued if they make money and spend it. People are valued if they have no special limitations to slow them or others down. Anyone that falls outside the bounds of what our society defines as “normal” is often looked upon, not as a blessing, but a liability. Because of that, an increasing number of Down Syndrome and other special needs babies are being aborted. Birth defects often lead to additional medical care which can be costly. And our society is increasingly allowing the bottom line to dictate morality. Instead of caring for special needs children, they’re being killed by abortion. It’s easier. It’s more cost effective.
But God’s word declares that all life is precious. Not just those who we call “normal” but all life. Exodus 4:11 declares, “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord?” Our God is sovereign. He’s the one who creates all life and all life is precious to him. God knows what he’s doing, even if we can’t completely understand. His plans are always perfect and none of us should ever dare to presume that we know more than God by taking the life of an unborn child.
Consider the following. There’s a preacher and wife who are very poor. They already have fourteen children. Now she finds out she’s pregnant with the fifteenth. They’re living in tremendous poverty. Considering the economic implications of another child, would you recommend the woman get an abortion? If you would, you would have killed John Wesley, one of the greatest evangelists in the history of the church.
Or consider this. The father is sickly, the mother has tuberculosis. They’ve had four children. The first is blind, the second is dead, the third is deaf and the fourth has TB, like his mother. The woman finds out she’s pregnant again. Given the extreme situation, would you consider recommending an abortion? If you would, you would have killed Ludwig von Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time. Or consider this. A white man raped a thirteen-year-old black girl and she got pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending an abortion? If you would, you would have killed Ethel Waters, the black gospel singer who ministered to millions of people around the globe with Billy Graham. All life is precious to God.
Over twenty-six years ago, Jeanne and Greg Krebs from Canton, Ohio sat in a doctor’s office. The doctor told the them, “You’ve had many problems thus far in the pregnancy and there’s a strong likelihood your child will have severe disabilities. As a result, I recommend an abortion.” The couple looked at each other and then Greg responded, “That’s not an option for us, doctor. We’re Christians and believe that God has created all life with a purpose. We’re committed to having this baby.”
Their son Chris was born with cerebral palsy and mental limitations. Greg says, “It hasn’t always been easy. But there’s a mixture of joy and heartbreak in raising any child; joy with the accomplishments, heartbreak with the setbacks….But we believe that God is doing the right thing all the time, even though the timing and circumstances don’t always make sense to us. God has used our son to teach us so much about his Son, Jesus Christ, and his love and faithfulness in our lives.”
Greg described one of many blessing their son Christ has brought into their lives. This experience happened when Chris was seven years old. Greg was picking up his wife from her work at a hospital. She was late getting off so Greg and Chris waited for her in one of the family rooms. Another man in his 60’s was waiting for an appointment. He was very scruffy-looking and smelly. Greg went to the nurse’s station to check how much longer his wife might be and when he returned, Chris was sitting by the older gentleman. The man was sobbing and Greg wondered what Chris had done to offend him. Greg went over to apologize.
He said, “I’m sorry if my son said something unkind to upset you or made you uncomfortable. He really doesn’t mean to be inappropriate.” The man replied, “Unkind? Unkind? Your son is the only person who has hugged me in the last twenty years!”Greg realized that at that moment Chris had a more Christ-like love for that man than he did!
The Bible assures all life is precious to God. No one created in the image of God is less valued by God than anyone else. Every person, special needs or not, is precious in God’s sight. Just because society places a higher value on people without special needs doesn’t mean that God has the same perspective. When God creates a person, he creates that person to accomplish his divine purposes. Keep in mind that God’s purposes may not be the same as our purposes. All life is precious to God.
3. By God’s grace, we can make a difference.
As I mentioned earlier, I believe one of the great lies that we’ve bought into is that the problem of abortion is somehow so large that our efforts won’t make any difference. But that’s just not true. All through history we find individuals, one by one, making a difference.
Think, for example, about Jonah in the Old Testament. He was only one man. Jonah was full of nationalistic pride and, at first he was openly disobedient to the Lord. When God called him to go to Nineveh, he went the opposite direction toward Tarshish. But when he finally got to Nineveh and preached his message, God used Jonah to provoke one of the greatest revivals recorded in Scripture. Overnight, over 120,00 people repented from their sin to such a degree that God stayed his hand of judgment. Jonah was only one man, but his obedience was the tool that God used to bring mercy to 120,000 people!
By God’s grace, we can make a difference. Working with people one by one, each of us playing our part, we can make a difference. Let me share with you a story of the remarkable impact one person can have. It’s the story of Norma McCorvey, who was the infamous Jane Roe in the Roe vs. Wade court case which legalized abortion in our country. Norma was quite a woman. She could outcuss the crassest men; she could out drink most tavern regulars; and she was known for her hot temper. When pro-lifers called her a murderer, she called them worse and spit on them.
Norma worked for an abortion clinic in North Dallas, Texas when the pro-life group Operation Rescue moved into the office right next door. The clinic and Operation Rescue shared a common wall in their offices. At first there was open conflict. The police were called almost hourly. But, over time, because the two groups were so close to each other, Norma began developing a relationship with some of the people from Operation Rescue, especially the daughter of one of the pro-lifers. Seven-year-old Emily was constantly giving Norma hugs and affection.
The little girl was winsome and disarming. One time Norma explained to Emily, “I like kids and wouldn’t let anyone hurt little kids,”to which Emily responded, “Then why do you let them kill babies at the clinic?” Emily’s child-like innocence cut Norma’s heart. Eventually, Norma began to see that abortion wasn’t about extracting blobs of flesh, it was about snuffing out young lives of children like Emily.
One day, Emily said, “Miss Norma, it would be sooo cool if you would come to church with us.” At first Norma said no, but Emily persisted for several weeks until she finally agreed to attend. One sermon was all Norma needed. Pastor Morris Sheats of Hillcrest Bible Church ended his sermon with an evangelistic call. Norma responded on her first day in church by going forward to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Today Norma McCorvey is not the same woman who twenty-five years ago was Jane Roe in Roe vs Wade. Today, Norma speaks around the country supporting pro-life concerns. Today she says, “I’m 100% sold out to Jesus and 100% pro-life. No exceptions. No compromise.”

AMEN!

Thanks to Darlene Fick Quiring for this next Christmas story………..God Bless you Darlene!

SANTA AND SARAH

Three years ago, a little boy and his grandmother came to see Santa at the McAllister Mall in Saint John. The child climbed up on his lap, holding a picture of a little girl. Who is this?” asked Santa, smiling. “Your friend? “Yes, Santa,’ he replied. “My sister, Sarah, who is very sick,” he said sadly. Santa glanced over at the grandmother who was waiting nearby, and saw her dabbing her eyes with a tissue. “She wanted to come with me to see you, oh, so very much, Santa!” the child exclaimed. “She misses you,” he added softly. Santa tried to be cheerful and encouraged a smile to the boy’s face, asking him what he wanted Santa to bring him for Christmas. When they finished their visit, the Grandmother came over to help the child off his lap, and started to say something to Santa, but halted. “What is it?” Santa asked warmly. “Well, I know it’s really too much to ask you, Santa, but..” the old woman began, shooing her grandson over to one of Santa’s elves to collect the little gift which Santa gave all his young visitors. “The girl in the photograph… my granddaughter well, you see … she has leukemia and isn’t expected to make it even through the holidays,” she said through tear-filled eyes. “Is there any way, Santa, any possible way that you could come see Sarah? That’s all she’s asked for, for Christmas, is to see Santa.” Santa blinked and swallowed hard and told the woman to leave information with his elves as to where Sarah was, and he would see what he could do. Santa thought of little else the rest of that afternoon. He knew what he had to do. “What if it were MY child lying in that hospital bed, dying,” he thought with a sinking heart, “This is the least I can do.” When Santa finished visiting with all the boys and girls that evening, he retrieved from his helper the name of the hospital where Sarah was staying. He asked the assistant location manager how to get to the Hospital. “Why?” Rick asked, with a puzzled look on his face. Santa relayed to him the conversation with Sarah’s grandmother earlier that day. “C’mon…..I’ll take you there.” Rick said softly. Rick drove them to the hospital and came inside with Santa. They found out which room Sarah was in. A pale Rick said, he would wait out in the hall. Santa quietly peeked into the room through the half-closed door and saw little Sarah in the bed. The room was full of what appeared to be her family; there was the Grandmother and the girl’s brother he had met earlier that day. A woman whom he guessed was Sarah’s mother stood by the bed, gently pushing Sarah’s thin hair off her forehead. And another woman who he discovered later was Sarah’s aunt, sat in a chair near the bed with a weary sad look on her face. They were talking quietly, and Santa could sense the warmth and closeness of the family, and their love and concern for Sarah. Taking a deep breath, and forcing a smile on his face, Santa entered the room, bellowing a hearty, “Ho, Ho, Ho!” “Santa!” shrieked little Sarah, weakly as she tried to escape her bed to run to him IV tubes intact. Santa rushed to her side and gave her a warm hug. A child the tender age of his own son — 9 years old — gazed up at him with wonder and excitement. Her skin was pale and her short tresses bore telltale bald patches from the effects of chemotherapy. But, all he saw when he looked at her was a pair of, huge blue eyes. His heart melted, and he had to force himself to choke back tears. Though his eyes were riveted upon Sarah’s face, he could hear the gasps and quiet sobbing of the women in the room. As he and Sarah began talking, the family crept quietly to the bedside one by one, squeezing Santa’s shoulder or his hand gratefully, whispering “Thank you” as they gazed sincerely at him with shining eyes. Santa and Sarah talked and talked, and she told him excitedly all the toys she wanted for Christmas, assuring him she’d been a very good girl that year. As their time together dwindled, Santa felt led in his spirit to pray for Sarah, and asked for permission from the girl’s mother. She nodded in agreement and the entire family circled around Sarah’s bed, holding hands. Santa looked intensely at Sarah and asked her if she believed in angels. “Oh, yes, Santa… I do!” she exclaimed. “Well, I’m going to ask angels watch over you.” he said. Laying one hand on the child’s head, Santa closed his eyes and prayed. He asked that, God touch little Sarah, and heal her body from this disease. He asked that angels minister to her, watch and keep her. And when he finished praying, still with eyes closed, he started singing, softly, “Silent Night, Holy Night….all is calm, all is bright.” The family joined in, still holding hands, smiling at Sarah, and crying tears of hope, tears of joy for this moment, as Sarah beamed at them all. When the song ended, Santa sat on the side of the bed again and held Sarah’s frail, small hands in his own. “Now, Sarah,” he said authoritatively, “you have a job to do, and that is to concentrate on getting well. I want you to have fun playing with your friends this summer, and I expect to see you at my house at McAllister Mall this time next year!” He knew it was risky proclaiming that to this little girl who had terminal cancer, but he “had” to. He had to give her the greatest gift he could — not dolls or games or toys — but the gift of HOPE. “Yes, Santa!” Sarah exclaimed, her eyes bright. He leaned down and kissed her on the forehead and left the room. Out in the hall, the minute Santa’s eyes met Rick’s, a look passed between them and they wept unashamed. Sarah’s mother and grandmother slipped out of the room quickly and rushed to Santa’s side to thank him. “My only child is the same age as Sarah,” he explained quietly. “This is the least I could do.” They nodded with understanding and hugged him. One year later, Santa was again back on the set in Saint John for his six-week, seasonal job which he so loves to do. Several weeks went by and then one day a child came up to sit on his lap. “Hi, Santa! Remember me?!” “Of course, I do,” Santa proclaimed (as he always does), smiling down at her. After all, the secret to being a “good” Santa is to always make each child feel as if they are the “only” child in the world at that moment. “You came to see me in the hospital last year!” Santa’s jaw dropped. Tears immediately sprang in his eyes, and he grabbed this little miracle and held her to his chest. “Sarah!” he exclaimed. He scarcely recognized her, for her hair was long and silky and her cheeks were rosy — much different from the little girl he had visited just a year before. He looked over and saw Sarah’s mother and grandmother in the sidelines smiling and waving and wiping their eyes. That was the best Christmas ever for Santa Claus. He had witnessed –and been blessed to be instrumental in bringing about — this miracle of hope. This precious little child was healed. Cancer-free. Alive and well. He silently looked up to Heaven and humbly whispered, “Thank you, Father. ‘Tis a very, Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to share this with you………I posted this on facebook on Friday after the CUP went out……….

I just got done posting the CUP….and this scripture is my Christmas scripture……Jesus said in John 18:36 “Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”

In the Albuquerque Journal this morning is the USA Weekend insert with this headline on the cover, “THE END OF THE WORLD IS NOT NEAR” The front page continues…Your in luck! from prophetic Maya calendars, to killer asteroids, experts tell w

hy you have nothing to worry about.

WOW! Let us pray……God only knows when HE ends the World….

I talk about the “NOTHING NOISE” of the World in the CUP today, and this edition of USA WEEKEND is more of the same.

In the meantime we are to carry out the Great Commission and be Salt and Light and occupy until our Lord returns!

here is Shari Johnson…………God Bless you Shari!

A New Night on the Job
Luke 2:20 ~ And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
I love the shepherds role in the Christmas story; those who the socialites looked down upon and were considered at best second class citizens, if that high ranking. I tried to imagine what it must have been like when they returned to the field; were their sheep still there? I would say God took care of their flock, or perhaps after seeing heaven filled with the Heavenly hosts the sheep were still standing in their place in shock. One thing I’m pretty sure of was that the shepherds didn’t return unchanged. I know this, because when I found Christ, I didn’t.
When I came to the saving grace of Christ Jesus there were no Heavenly Hosts opening up the skies and singing glory to God, at least not that anyone could see. But they were there, because the scripture says in Luke 15:7 “I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.” This from the parable of the lost sheep, another shepherd sotry. God obviously has a fondness for them.
He used the shepherd’s role as a training ground for the Leadership.
King David himself rose to fame because of the skills he mastered in the fields as a shepherd. Before he slew the giant Goliath he had killed the fiercest of creatures the lion and had no doubt protected the flock from countless others. The role of shepherd however had somewhat diminished in its respectability factor over the years. But this night they were the chosen few.
Is it any wonder that when they returned they were worshippers?
They glorified God. One of them may have written the first Christmas carol on a harp like David played. They had begun as outcasts but were now in the “in crowd”, being chosen to be among the first to see the extraordinary birth of the Messiah. If they had an occasion to go to town before this night, they likely went in and out with as little notice as possible, but tonight they proudly greeted everyone with the news of the Savior’s birth because they were somebody!
They were wound up!
They were excited! I get that, because when I got saved I couldn’t tell enough people about it. There is something that bubbles up in your soul and spills out to every non believer you come across. You want them to know what you know. And you can tell them with confidence because you have been found worthy! Not by anything you have done, but because God loved you enough to visit you in an extraordinary way and allow you to become a part of the greatest story ever told. Now that story was yours; the one everyone in town was talking about, you were in it.
I would venture a guess that the shepherd’s first night back in the field was spent with their head up and a whole new attitude.
Hold your head high child of God, you are a part of the greatest story ever told!