What will you gain, if you own the whole world but destroy yourself? What could you give to get back your soul? Mark 8:36-37 [CEV]
Christmas is almost upon us and perhaps you are finding that the wonder and joy that you used to feel as a child is absent this year? Busyness can make the business of life more complicated and sometimes we are in so much of a hurry that we don’t have time to make time to focus on the “reason for the season” of Christmas. Perhaps it is time to analyse what we are doing and why we are doing it – are we frittering away our time on things that will save souls? Or are we just finding that our time is filled with man-made time-wasting stuff? At Christmas, it can be difficult to focus on people when we are buried deeply under the trappings of the holiday.
Perhaps it would be good to take stock over Christmas about which parts of the busyness of our lives is benefiting souls, and what is based on “gaining the world”. In other words, are we building up treasures that will last for ever?
Lord, help us to focus on you at Christmas, as we celebrate the birth of Jesus.
Amen.
Dave MacLellan (first published in 2010)
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