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Reflecting on Worship Dec. 23
(Taking the Message with You…)
What signs have you noticed that God’s promises are active and at work in you life? What community has sustained and upheld you when you needed it? How did this happen? Was God at work there? How did you know? How would you describe these fingerprints of God’s activity in your life?
Do you think you have somehow been the fingerprint of God in someone else’s life? Perhaps they told you how important your help or support and caring has been to them. When we touch people’s lives with God’s presence we aren’t always aware of it ourselves.
The Christmas Story comes to us as good news and a new view to this wonderful thing: God comes near to touch our lives in a very human way. The Christ Child from God suggests that God now comes to us in human ways and through other people. Jesus is not the only human through whom God comes. Whoever carries Christ also brings the touch of God. When the servants of Christ touch our lives or when other people do God’s work in our lives, it is a moment and a method ordained by God.
I tell you, in these moments, the Christmas Story continues to be lived out. In these moments the incarnation (the enfleshing) of God’s work leaves its fingerprint in our lives. In these moments the purposeful mercy of God touches our hearts and changes our lives. Christmas is this embrace of God. This gift we also can now share with others to whom God sends us.
How might God be preparing you for the work of bringing God’s touch (fingerprint) into the lives of those whom God wishes to sustain with grace, mercy and hope? This question is what Christmas is all about!
The Peace of the Lord, be with you always.
Pastor Mitch