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Thursday, December 4, 2008


"We Don't Have Time for That!"

Typical of last minute Christmas shoppers, a mother was running furiously from store to store. Suddenly she became aware that the pudgy little hand of her three year old son was no longer clutched in hers.

In a panic she retraced her steps and found him standing with his little nose pressed flatly against a frosty window. He was gazing at a manger scene. Hearing his mother’s near hysterical call, he turned and shouted with innocent glee: "Look Mommy! It’s Jesus - baby Jesus in the hay".

With obvious indifference to his joy and wonder, she impatiently jerked him away saying, "We don’t have time for that!" (From "The Wonder of Christmas” by Glenn Pease.)

Amazing, isn’t it? The Creator and Sustainer of the universe has the time to hear and respond to our prayers, meet our needs and give us most of our desires. Yet, we often don’t have time for worship, communion, Bible study and sharing our faith in Jesus with others.

Quite frankly, it isn’t a matter of not having enough time, but a matter of how we choose to live our lives. It is a matter of choosing that which is really important to us and whether we really believe what we claim we believe.

“But when the right time came, God sent his Son …” Galatians 4:4