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OUT OF UNCERTAINTY, PROMISE

If ever there was a year of uncertainty, this is it. be removed from our lives, we can ‘others’ decided what we can do and

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All the questions - ‘what ifs’, ‘don’t For me, the focus has been taken off knows’, ‘not sures’ - and the reality that of my own self-centred desires and our lives aren’t really under our control redirected back to God Himself. He (even when we are used to being has been my anchor in the storm, told that they are). We’re told that our focus in confusion, comfort in distress destinies are and hope under our own control, A gift that in darkest places. The based on decisions is eternal knowledge that life and we make. death is in the We hear that positive thinking will Creator’s hands and that our trust can produce great things, limitations will be solely in Him has been my lifeline. where we can go. make anything possible and become As we approach the year’s end our whatever we would like to be. focus shifts to a moment in time when our planet welcomed the most I don’t know about you but, this year, precious, treasured gift it has ever none of those suggestions have been been given. This beats any vaccine, of much help. any cure, any career, thrill or fitness regime and food. This is a gift that It has been a year when control was is eternal, forever, never ending. taken from us to a great extent and There is no other that can offer this

satisfaction, creativity, vision, or love.

This gift is Jesus, our Promise, the one the Earth waited to welcome from the beginning of time. Jesus our Saviour, our Redeemer. He gives us hope and said, ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.’ (John 14 1-3, NIV)

An amazing promise, that this Jesus who appeared to the world as a little baby, became the very same one who promises to prepare a place for us in His heavenly kingdom. A place full of joy, peace and laughter, where there is no more sorrow or pain or sickness, no more Covid-19 or death. A place where angels continually praise our God. in our Christmas carols with ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing’, ‘Joy to the World’ and ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’. It is a place where the ‘Silent Night’ of Christmas becomes a day without end and where the light of our Lord and Saviour fills our vision. There will be no silence but unending music, singing and dancing.

So, this Christmas as we reflect upon the past, the parties we would normally be going to, the large family gatherings many would have had and now an expectation of a ‘quieter one’ this coming season, remember that in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ there is an endless Christmas party. Later, there will be Heaven, where all the promises of God and His Word are fulfilled and there is joy everlasting.

Rachel Loynes

Receptionist & Administrator

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