Today marks 40 days until Christmas
Instead of letting that news send you into a mad rush to buy, decorate, and give before December 25th, let's try something a little different this year.
This year let's choose to celebrate Jesus every day for the next 40 days. Let's turn this into a season of celebration. Let's choose to look around us and look for Jesus and His work in our everyday lives. If we want to spend November being thankful, what better way than to be thankful for all Christ has done for us. If we want to focus our hearts in December, let's spend Advent not just thinking about the birth of Christ and preparing for His arrival, but also, asking Him to have all of our year, all of our lives, and to work on making us more like Him.
For the next 40 days, let us spend time daily reading God's word, let us commit to pray for those around us, and let us think past the material presents that may or may not be given this year, and instead focus on the eternal present of forgiveness offered through Christ's death and resurrection.
May you be drawn into a closer relationship with Christ this Christmas season.
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Amen! We need to count our blessings one by one and celebrate Jesus every single day. Thanks for sharing :)
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