Christmas is a festive time of year for we Christians because we get giddy and a little child-like...and there's nothing wrong with that! The other night I read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and I felt like a little kid again; even just for a few minutes. The tree was all aglow, we had a nice fire crackling in the fireplace and my wife was baking Christmas cookies. Personally, I LOVE Christmas because i really enjoy giving people gifts. I have always been like that. Whether I was a child or in medical school it made no difference. If you ask any one of my close friends they will tell you the same. BUT, the real cool thing about Christmas is knowing what you're getting before Christmas even comes and you didn't peek :).
As for me, I am promised to get a mansion of gold. Imagine that! But how could I possibly know that? The Bible says in Luke 14: "As Jesus was talking to his followers He said, Don't let you hearts be worried...you believe in God so believe in me too. In my father's house (heaven) there are many mansions: if this was not true I would not tell you this. I will go and prepare a place for you now. And when I go and prepare a place for you now I will come back to earth again later and we will all be together. That way, where I am, you will be there too...in Heaven. I have told you these things now because I am here with you now". In Revelation 22, we are told three times to "Be ready, for I (Jesus) am coming back quickly". Oh yes, I almost forgot. My mansion will be very well lit too because there will be no darkness in Heaven. Revelation 22 says: "And there shall be no night there; and there wil be no need for candles or light from the sun because the Lord God will give us light and we shall reign for ever and ever."
Now THAT is what I call a Christmas present. You might be thinking, " Joe, how do know this stuff and what makes you so sure this will happen"? The answer is simple, my friends. 2008 years ago God gave us all the very first Christmas present and it was a baby named Jesus. What people of the time didn't know (and many still don't) is that Jesus was God in human form and later personally told the writers of the Bible these things I am relating to you now... first hand. You can't do better than that. But, if you want to live next to my mansion in heaven you'll have to believe that God sent his son, Jesus, to die for our sins so we don't have to and just accept that as fact and trust it and God. Then, just follow God's direction and no matter what life takes you through, your end result will be a place without pain, crying, sorrow or death....but with a mansion. It sounds very simple, doesn't it? Almost too simple. Well, accepting a gift from a friend is very simple too. You just merely take the gift and enjoy it. But this gift from God is the best gift you could ever get because this gift gives you eternal life!! The difference with this gift too is that millions upon millions of people have not accepted the gift (they don't have to DO anything to receive it) but they will not be in heaven with us because they rejected the gift. It is very, very sad but true. But as Linus so aply stated in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" .... "that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown". Merry Christmas, everyone. Love to Everybody!!
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