My favorite line from today's reading:
God came as a baby, giving and entrusting Himself to me. He expects my personal life to be a “Bethlehem.”
A great turn of phrase. Bethlehem was the place into which God the Son was born. It is the place where His presence on earth was first revealed, and from which He moved, into other places, living a life that would grow in influence and extend God's gradce, love, healing, blessing and forgiveness to all.
MY life (and yours) is intended to be like Bethlehem - revealing Christ's presence on earth, carrying God's presence with us into other places, allowing our lives to influence the world in good and gracious ways, communicating love, healing, forgiveness and blessing.
Some days I definitely feel that I am doing that. What would the world look like if everyone who loves Him could live that way all the time?
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