By ETHEL SKIPPER
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas – and has a most wonderful, spiritual-filled New Year!
During this season of the year, it is a busy time, some people are busy trying to figure out what to buy their friends and grandchildren. I know how you feel – what is it they don’t already have?
There is something we cannot get too much of, and it is the word for the season.
In the beginning was the word and word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginnning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made. In Him was life and the life was the light of men. The light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.
The word was in the beginning before anything, there was God and the word. Then the word was with God. The word was and is distinct from God, but it is also in close personal relationship with God. The word was God, the word is fully God.
He possesses the same divine nature as God and is one with God. All things were made by Him. The word had power to speak all things into being because in Him was life.
The word was referred to as a light – the light. In the Gospel, one finds that light. People will reject that light of the Gospel, comprehending it not because they love darkness rather than the light.
Today the taks of making the light known through the church. While the church is called to witness to the Light, it is not the church’s responsibility to ake believers of the Light. That is something only God can do, through the internal witness of the Holy Spirit.
Let us be fatith to do what God has charged us to do ans ask Him to do what only He can do.
This Christmas pray for those who have not believed in Jesus as savior and Lord.
Our prayers and blessings go out to all the sick and shut-in, to those in need of help in all ways, those in the hospital, nursing home, prison, the homeless, and all in need of a blessing everywhere. Pray for our our president of the United States and world leaders. Be thankful and bless the name of the Lord.
