Monday, December 28, 2009

After Christmas Blues...

I'm always kind of bummed out after Christmas. You see, for months I have been looking forward to this one special day. Actually for us it is a string of special days. I look forward to opening gifts, eating great food but most of all, spending time with family.

After Christmas everything I have been looking forward to is over. It seems a little silly to look a year ahead to the next Christmas. My birthday is in March and that will be a good time. We have vacation plans with family this summer. I've been excited about that for quite a while.

It seems like life is more fun if you have something to look forward to.

Paul wrote something about this in Romans 8:

17Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21that[i] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

We have something to look forward to! We are heirs to the Kingdom of God! Let us live with this in mind.

2 comments:

  1. Vaughn:
    Hope your trip home to Texas was special! I know how you may miss family and friends there. Your being our pastor is much appreciated. Your love for the Lord is special and it radiates to those you minister to here at National Heights! God Bless, Brian Watson

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  2. Jason:
    Nice post on looking forward to our Heavenly Home!
    Happy New Year to all!
    Brian Watson

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