What could be better?

What could be better than 15 salvations? What could be better than 190 kids showing up to radically pursue God? What could be better than joining together with other kids our age to worship with reckless abandon? What could be better than a church that actually encourages and supports this youth church? WHAT COULD BE BETTER?!

The only thing that could be better is the One who makes life possible. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only One better than all those things because He makes all those "things" possible! What a great and awesome God we serve! What a loving and gracious Heavenly Father who ever lives to make intercession for us, who works out His perfect will in our life. We are blessed and not just because it's the Christmas season and we should be thankful. But because we are Christians and every single day of the year we are blessed and should go so far as to recognize that truth.

During this time it's easy to be thinking of ourselves and what we want for Christmas. In fact, it's all too easy. It's even easy to remember "those who are less fortunate" than we. It's even easy to spew Christian Christmas Cliches, "He's the reason for the season", and those are all true. But this Christmas have we asked God what He wanted?

What would God want? World peace? Money? A new heaven to dwell in, since He doesn't dwell in a house. An XBOX 360? A new car... I mean heavenly chariot cloud thing? The answer of course is no to all of those earthly desires (although maybe the chariot cloud thing). What I know God wants for Christmas is YOU! He wants to come to the Tree and find you there. His desire isn't for two front teeth, a new car, or a new anything...He Wants YOU.

So this Christmas, wrap yourself in His anointing, place yourself at the foot of the tree and instead of waiting for Santa to come down the chimney, wait for the King of Kings to find you and let yourself be the gift.

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