Get to Work

Meditate. How are you going to apply what you have learned about Jesus during this year?

When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, "Let's go to Bethlehem! Let's see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about." They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger. After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child. All who heard the shepherds' story were astonished, but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often. The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them. Luke 2:15-20

Christmas is over…now the work of Christmas begins.  Google the poem “Now the Work of Christmas Begins” by Howard Thurman copyright by Friends United Press. Thurman was an African-American theologian, educator, and Civil Rights Leader who wrote a liturgy to mark the end of the Christmas Season. It deals with the quiet of the sky as the angels stopped singing, the return of the shepherds to their flocks and the wise men to their homes. Now it is time for us to pitch in and work for the lost, broken, hungry and prisoners. These actions are all things that Jesus did. Think about what you need to do on a daily basis to keep Christmas alive, not only in your own life, but in the lives of those around you, all year long. Keeping Christmas alive allows God to work in our hearts—filling each of us with His love—so that we can love others for Him. Don’t ask yourself so much what the world needs, but ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. There are things we can do…even during isolation. 

Prayer ~ Holy Spirit, help me to find the lost in the community around me, to assist in healing those with broken spirits, to feed the hungry—spiritually and physically, to release those who are prisoners within their emotions or homes that they would be rebuilt physical or spiritually, to bring peace to those nearby and to make music within my heart—that it may flow out to others around me. Let Your love shine.

Israeli Flag flying over the Sea of Galilee.
Pray for Israel.
Peace, love, joy and hope.

Verse of Salvation ~ Because I love Zion, I will not keep still. Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem, I cannot remain silent. I will not stop praying for her until her righteousness shines like the dawn, and her salvation blazes like a burning torch. Isaiah 62:1

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