Did you know...?

​Just the other day, I was driving in the car with my 5-year-old granddaughter riding in the back seat.  As we drove, we played our usual games; “I spy with my little eye”, counting cars to a hundred at long traffic lights, and singing along to favorite songs.  She enjoys showing grandma how much she knows.  As we passed a particularly beautiful stretch of countryside, I asked my granddaughter if she knew that every tree we saw, and every blade of grass, every flower and even the sky was made by God.  Her answer was a surprised and emphatic, "I did not know that!"
 
It's amazing the things we assume that another person knows. This Christmas season, I’ve decided to stop assuming that those around me know the actual origins and meaning of Christmas. So, I ask, Do you know that God who created each of us loves us so much that he didn’t allow us to be lost under the burden of our mistakes, failures and sins? Instead, He gifted us with a substitute in the person of his son Jesus.  Jesus traded places with us and has paid our debt and taken our guilt and shame.  In exchange, we receive his righteousness and inherit eternal life with God our heavenly father.  Did you know that?!
 
Whether you already knew or have just discovered a new and wonderful truth, I hope you will join me in asking “Did you know” questions of those around you.  Share the good news of Christ to your family, friends and especially to the little ones in your life.  You never know who may need to know the true joy of Christmas.
 
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!