Celebrate your rights!!!

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
(John 1:9-12 ESV)



As I began to read my Advent Devotional this morning, these words stood out to me particularly....he gave the right to become children of God.....I sat there with a humbled and thankful heart. I mean what were my rights before this God child entered into the world? I was a Fatherless, Orphaned, child of darkness. A mere shadow of what God had intended when He created the world. Without the TRUE LIGHT we are all walking around in darkness of soul and mind. Spiritually dead.

Jon went caving this weekend and shared some of his adventures with me. One of them was about being in a cave and all of them turning their flashlights off. They stood there in COMPLETE darkness...Absolutely void of any light. They could not see ANYTHING!! The thought Hit Jon that Hell would be like that!!!! Friends that is where we are spiritually if we have not RECEIVED Jesus.

It is my prayer, that this Advent/Christmas season, that we would sit and meditate on who He is and what He has done. He is the true Light who opens the eyes of the blind and gives us the RIGHT to become Children of the Almighty God!!! So as you put up your Christmas trees, wrap presents, listen to christmas carols, and prepare for your family gatherings....it is my prayer.....that Jesus and all that He has done will be the center Focus of this Christmas. It was prophesied that He would come....and He did, over two thousand years ago the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. My precious brothers and sisters, as we approach the day set aside to celebrate our dear Saviors birth...Let that Hope stir in you....that stirred within Mary and Josephs hearts, that stirred within the shepherds hearts when the angels visited them, that stirred in the wise mens hearts as they made their way across the desert to see the LIGHT of the World...Jesus...God with us!!! He Came!!!! He's coming Again :) Celebrate that HE GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!