12/25/2025
Dec. 25 — Merry Christmas!
What a glorious day! I am so grateful for those who have joined me in these 25 days focused on the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew chapter one. Here are some really important truths I hope you will always remember:
#1 — God keeps His Word. Every single prophecy was fulfilled from Abraham, to David, to the Virgin Mary.
#2 — God cares about families. Remember, family has divine origin. God was Father before he was Creator. This is more than a human institution.
#3 — When God is silent it doesn’t mean that He is absent. Sing it again: “Even when you don’t see it, He’s working…”
#4 — Don’t “throw in the towel,” “throw down the gauntlet!” God has a plan for your life, and the birth of Christ is right in the center of it.
Here’s another message from Max Lucado: “The story of Christmas is the story of God’s relentless love for us. The moment Mary touched God’s face is the moment God made his case: there is no place he will not go. No place is too common, no person is too hardened, no distance is too far. There is no person he cannot reach. There is no limit to his love.”
Let me close this month of devotions with this: “A Christmas Morning Prayer” by Robert Louis Stevenson (Who knows, he may be in my genealogy!).
Loving Father,
help us remember the birth of Jesus,
that we may share in the song of the angels,
the gladness of the shepherds,
and worship of the wise men.
Close the door of hate and open the door of love all over the world. Let kindness come with
every gift and good desires with every greeting. Deliver us from evil by the blessing which
Christ brings, and teach us to be merry with clear hearts.
May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children, and Christmas evening bring
us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus' sake. Amen.