Bibby’s Blessings
Christmas 2018
My most beloved ones,
Christmas...
Being with our people...
Giving extravagantly...
Treasuring up precious moments in our hearts...
As I’ve busied myself around the kitchen all day long, listening to Christmas music and bossing your Dad around, I’ve been filled with so much love and anticipation of being with my treasures tomorrow...
And those thoughts led me to remember how God instructed Moses to build a tabernacle, just for the purpose of coming down to BE with His people...
And His eternal desire to give to those He loved....
To defy every law of the universe just to be with them.
And so He came...
In those days in the form of fire...
Hovering over the most holy place...
... the “Shekinah glory of God!”
For over 500 years, the pillar of cloud was there every day and a pillar of fire was there every night...
But the time came when that glory departed...
The people began to think they could just USE God for their own selfish purposes...
And honor him with lip service but not with their hearts.
Dad and I stood on the very ground where that tabernacle stood in Shiloh; on the ground where the shekinah glory hovered....
The place where Samuel heard God calling; the place where Ichabod was born (meaning, the glory has departed)
Later the flaming glory of God came to Solomon’s Temple...
Once more, the people’s hearts were divided.
The kingdom fell...
The glory never again to be seen...
Until...
One ordinary night...
“...the heavens exploded..
With music everywhere,
And the angels spilled over heaven’s edge
And filled the air....”
The fire of His presence; the Light of the World had returned!
And on the eighth day, the Glory of God once again...
entered the Temple...
In the arms of a virgin girl.
The sunshine of His Father’s life...
The light of the whole world...
With His people.
Unspeakable JOY will be felt in your homes tomorrow morning as you experience the joy of giving extravagantly!
Know as you put your sweet heads on your pillow tonight...
That YOU are the reason that the Light returned!!
To give to you and to your offspring...
A gift.
A very.
extravagant,
Costly...
gift!
Eternal life...
With Him!
May your love for Him be more than a child’s love of Santa...
May it be fervent...
Extravagant ...
visible in all your actions;
may it be a flame within you that burns it’s way into your demeanor and shines there in such a way that none would ever doubt where your allegiance is!
May the fire of your love for Him reach into your babies hearts and spark a flame! May you carry the torch of fervent love for Him...
Until He returns again!
Merry Christmas, my darlings!
