We invite you to join us
each day from Friday, November 30 through Tuesday, January 1, 2013 for a Christmas season of daily devotions—our
Christmas gift to you! On Friday, January
4, 2013, we will resume
posting one devotion each week. –The MCC
Writers
Black Friday
The
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ;
and he shall reign for ever and ever. Revelation 11:15b (KJV)
It is a joy to see a child
imitating good habits without being coaxed by an adult. It is even more
fulfilling when we observe children applying something they learned in Sunday
school or heard at church. Wendy was delighted when she overheard her young
daughters singing some hallelujahs, in what sounded like part of the “Hallelujah
Chorus” in Handel’s Messiah.
Wendy quietly approached her
daughters’ room, wanting to savor, yet not interrupt, the precious moment. The
concert became disconcerting, however, when Wendy was close enough to see and
hear. The girls were dancing and twirling their pocketbooks as they sang words
from the television commercial, “Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Black Friday!”
The kingdom of this world: Holiday shopping season is ushered in by Black Friday.
Businesses advertise enticing deals in hopes to make record sales. They count
on luring shoppers into their stores. Shoppers,
parking spaces, and dollars are counted. This is part of the way they top off
the fiscal year, and in a month it will be over.
The kingdom of our God: The Christmas season focuses on our Savior’s birth.
The Messiah gives rather than expects us to buy. He does not lure us with a
bargain to benefit His account, but rather He beckons us to Him because He
loves us and wants to shower us with His grace and mercy. When we accept His
gift, we become spiritually rich for eternity, for He is the “King of kings and
Lord of lords…forever and ever.”
Father, you are the “King
of kings and Lord of lords!” We sing our hallelujahs to You this Christmas
season. (Revelation 19:16).
© 2012, Nance
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