Merry Christmas Eve!
Almost my last blog of this season, 24 days of reflecting on who God is drawing to a close.
Day 24- God is Missional
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is candle light Christmas Eve service and I have loved continuing that tradition with my own little family. This is our second Christmas together, hard to believe, and tonight we bundled up against the freezing temps and marched into church joining hundreds of other believers in celebrating the birth of Christ. Every year the Christmas Eve service is always a time of reflection for me. Singing Christmas hymns with other believers, hearing the story of the birth of Christ and pausing with my family to reflect on The meaning of tomorrow.
At the end of the service light is passed from person to person until each candle in the building is lit filling the sanctuary with a soft beautiful glow. Our voices raise together in a song reflecting on that mysterious night when love came down to earth and the world stood still. And we are reminded that Christ is the light of the world and we as His followers are responsible to carry that light, piercing holes in the darkness and spreading hope to the earth that Christ has come!
This has always been God's plan. Spreading light to the darkness and hope to the hopeless and using us to do it. Our God is a missional God who longs to leave no one behind.
"Then Jesus came to them and said,“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” {Matt 28:18-20}
All nations, all people.
Everywhere.
God does not desire that any are left behind.
His love is bigger than an ocean and
His grace expands beyond the depths of this universe.
No one is beyond His reach.
A child in a manger. The King in human form. Born that man no more should die.
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