What Manner of Love

I read about a little girl who climbed onto Santa's lap and heard Santa ask the usual question: "And what would you like for Christmas?" The child looked up at him totally horrified and asked, “What do you mean? Did you not get my email?” Times have changed since most of us adults were children. I’ll prove it to you. There is no way what I am about to tell you would have made any sense at all when the senior high students in this room were born. So, here it is. What do you get if you cross a Christmas Tree with an iPad? A Pine..Apple!

Christmas is time of love and laughter. Can you image the smiles and joy on the faces of Mary and Joseph as they held Jesus in their arms? Image the joy on the faces of those shepherds who heard the angels and came to the manger that night. Yes, Christmas began as a time for love and joy.

John writes in 1 John 3:1-2 these words: “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”