Posted on 12/24/2016 12:01:04 PM PST by Jim W N
Christmas is actually about receiving – receiving the amazing gift of Jesus Christ from God who loves to give.
We bring joy to God’s heart when we take, take, and take some more from Jesus. Our taking from Jesus is actually food and refreshment for Jesus.
The story of the woman at the well begins with, “Jesus being wearied from His journey, sat by the well” (John 4:5). Jesus said to the woman there, “Give Me a drink” (v.7). But then he tells the woman, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water” (v. 10). She responds, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw” (v. 15). Later, “His disciples urged Him, saying, ‘Master, eat’. But He said to them, ‘I have food to eat of which you do not know.’ Therefore the disciples said to one another, ‘Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?’ (v. 31-33).
The answer is yes. Jesus was weary, but by taking the love and salvation Jesus had to offer, the woman refreshed and strengthened Jesus.
Thank you Jesus for your amazing love – for coming down, becoming one of us, and giving your all that we might take all the love and goodness you have to give us. May we learn to take from you and ever take all that you died to give us.
May you have a Blessed and Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas my FReeper family!
God Bless.
God bless.
Thank you very much for this beautiful meditation.
Merry, Blessed Christmas to you and yours.
pax
God Bless and Merry Christmas.
Thank you Bob. God bless you.
How can I get this image to post on SCL?
The way I did it here on this FR post is
- right click over the picture,
- choose "Copy image address"
- post (image adress is http://www.freerepublic.com/images/MerryChristmas.gif)
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I got the Merry Christmas image above to appear as is on the "Add New Post" on WordPress, but when I hit "Publish", the image came out on SCL looking like this:
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