This Christmas learn to be content and satisfied in any and every situation you find yourself. The Lord is always at work and always is trying to teach you something. My wife and I normally feel the need to go over board with our children at Christmas because things were much different for us growing up. I remember last year when we came walking down the stairs I felt like I had done something wrong. My wife and I felt the same. We were giving our kids things that we would have never been able to afford growing up.What were we teaching them? What message were we sending to them? This year My wife and I have made the choice to spend less and teach more. What I mean by that is we will buy them some gifts but we will teach them more about the Lord and bring Christ to the center of our Christmas this year. Our children need to see Mom and Dad living for the Lord and making him first in our lives. Even more so during the Holiday season that is suppose to be centered around the Birth of our King. We have so much in our lives and its because our King was born to die so that we would have life.

     We get so worked up about all the presents and the things we must buy for everyone we love but we already have so much. We need to spend more time sharing the news about who the King is and what the King has done for us.  Our children and our families need the Lord Jesus and he offers His gift freely for anyone who wants to receive it. Its a special gift! Its a gift that does not wear out and fall apart. Its the gift of having eternal life and spending eternity worshipping the King. Remember this month to not get swallowed up in the consumer mentality of buying more and more but to spend time worshipping the King and sharing the news of the King. There is not greater gift!

     John 3:16 says " For God so loved the world in this way: He gave His, One and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life."