Pastor Joe Sanders - December 15, 2013
Recycled Christmas
There’s lots of times in life when we feel used up, ready to be thrown away, like we don’t have anything left to give. The pains and suffering that many of us endure in this life sap the strength from us, leaving us with little or no evidence of a sovereign (much less good) God- but Scripture continues to tell us to believe. This is the world that Christ entered into when he was born. Not just to live beside or with it, but to be born into it and to live in it and to redeem it. He came into a world full of broken and messed up people in order to renew and remake them. He is taking our pain and suffering and recycling them for a beautiful purpose. Our response to his recycling work is to say, “I will not let go!"
Scripture References: Luke 2:1-7