Monday Morning Moments


MONDAY MORNING MOMENTS Dec. 14,1998 Vol. III Number 48

The story is told of a christening that was to be held many years ago by a very wealthy European family. Many guests were invited to the home for the occasion and came in the very latest fashionable grab. Their wraps and coats were carried to a bedroom and laid upon the beds. After the usual time of conversation and commotion, they were ready for the christening ceremony and someone asked, “where is the baby?”

The nurse was sent upstairs to look and returned in alarmed distress. The baby was nowhere to be found! After several minutes’ search someone remembered that the child had last been seen lying on one of the beds, and after a frantic search the little child was found smothered under the wraps of the guests. The chief reason why they had come had been forgotten, neglected and destroyed!

This Christmas many will forget, neglect and even destroy the Christ child! He is smothered by the tinsel, wrapping paper, ribbon and make-believe that surround the festive occasion reminding us of the words of Luke, ‘there was no room for them in the inn.” Let’s not crowd Christ out of Christmas.

“Look at the Nations and watch - and be UTTERLY AMAZED. for I am going to do something in YOUR days that you would not believe even if you were told” Habakkuk 1:5

Pastor Lyle

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