WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THIS CHRISTMAS?

Malachi 3:1-4

Do you ever put things down only to return and find that they are not where you think you put them? Perhaps you chase around every corner of the house looking for your keys. Often it seems that you only find them after exhausting all hope of ever finding them.  What are you looking for this Christmas? Often times we have a picture in our heads of what Christmas should look like and feel like and we spend our lives trying to fit Christmas into that box. We judge the success or value of a particular Christmas season by how well it measured up to that expectation.  “Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to His temple, the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire will come,” says the Lord Almighty. “Suddenly, not right now” or “just when you might have guessed” or even “doing exactly what you expected Him to.” You might feel like the perfect Christmas has been lost for years or maybe has never even come, but Christʼs work in our lives often presents itself in ways we donʼt expect and maybe even after weʼve exhausted all hope of ever finding it.  Through Godʼs grace we are promised that He is working in our hearts the entire time – forgiving, loving and restoring. 

Pastor Darryl