Blessed Christmas Everyone!

It's Christmas eve!! Merry Christmas everyone!!

Yes, Christmas is the season of giving, maybe it's just a ploy by major corporations to make us spend more money, I don't know, but let us look past all the superficial presents the world talks about and look to something infinitively more valuable!

2 Corinthians 5:17-18
17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation

Yes, God's gift to us 2000++ years ago was the gift of LIFE! In Christ we are no longer our old sinful self, but conquerors in Him who loved us! This brings me to something i feel that God has put in my heart for a pretty long time since camp ended, and it's just the simple word 'PURE'.

So we all understand what the word 'pure' means clean or 100% of something, but do we know what it means to us? Why is it important? Let us examine Matthew 5:8

8Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.

Yes you guessed it! The very first important point of having a pure heart is because it enables us to see God! It is always our hearts desire to see God, to draw closer to Him, to fellowship with God and just enjoy His presence! So cast away all other thoughts and intentions whatever they may be, and just go before God, with the sole desire to seek Him! Surely God will reveal His glory to you, Amen!

Therefore my dear brothers and sisters (Philippians 1:9-11) 9And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.

Let us (2 Timothy 2:22) 22Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Yes, I will stop my heavy lifting before I get a C-!
But truly it is my hearts desire that we be a generation that seek after God with clean hands and pure hearts! As iron sharpen iron, let us spur one another on towards the good work that God is already doing in our Church! That we may see God in even Greater Glory our ministry!! =D

This Christmas, let our hearts be our gift to God!

Have a very Blessed Christmas everyone!! =)