On Christmas we often give gifts and receive them. As children the joy is in the receiving, but as we grow older the joy is more and more in the giving. Yet Christ tells us we need to receive the Kingdom of God like a little child. How can we get back to that place where we receive the gift of God in Jesus Christ with the joy that exhausts children to the point of passing out? When Christ shall arrive, will we greet him like the shepherds, or shall we slumber on like the peole of Bethlehem?
Recorded at Hudson UMC on December 24, 2018
S.D.G.