I heard a sermon last Sunday morning from a favorite pastor, Jentezen Franklin. He's on my "bucket list" of things to do before I die, mainly because he preaches with passion and he puts his money where his mouth is. Anyway, he preached this amazingly simple, 3-point sermon about the Wise Men, but there is one part I want to share today.
This is Christmas, and our focus should be on the greatest gift ever given: God's Son. He gave Him to us, knowing that it would result in unimaginable suffering on the Cross not too many years later. So what do we need to remember as we encounter Jesus at Christmas? After the Wise Men visited him and gave Him the best gifts they had, they left and traveled a different way home. When we encounter Jesus, we should travel a different path. We should be changed by Him, and every step we take after that should be different . . . by a different route, if you will . . . because we have met Him and been changed by that meeting. If you have met Jesus and not been changed, sit down tonight, tomorrow, and in the final days of 2010 -- meet Him again, because He desires to meet you, know you and transform you from the inside out. He wants you to love Him supremely, love yourself as He loves you, and then love others the way He does. To do that, we simply can't be like we used to be. We need a new path, a new journey. Allow your meeting with Jesus to send you along your way on a different road . . . a road of blessings and grace. You won't be sorry.
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