Xmas.

How would you feel if there was a birthday party all for you and many people are celebrating it? Everyone is busy preparing for the party. From the food, to the decorations..

When the day comes... You're so excited for it. It's finally your birthday! You go right straight up to the door and you realize... You didn't receive any form of invitation. From the peephole /through any opening, you trying to peek inside to what they are doing.. You see them eating a log cake, it looks very delicious, you see them eating roast turkeys and many other delicious food. You don't get the food. Then there's a gift exchange.. Everyone's exchanging gifts.. But it's your birthday. You don't get a gift as well. It's your birthday. Why does it seem like it's everyone else's birthday instead?

Never mind, maybe it was only this party. You go to the other houses and you realize they are all practicing the same thing. Everyone's not inviting you to the party.. But it's your birthday..Why don't they care about you at all?

Sadly you leave... Yet another year, forgotten.. This wasn't the first.. & it certainly wouldn't be the last...

Sadly, that story is true and it's how Jesus feels every single year. 

They people care more about a mythological creature named "santa claus" more than Jesus. Jesus is real! But why do they care more about something that is only a child's belief?

This Christmas, let's invite Jesus in to our hearts. It's the only right the to do. 

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sport car in a dealer showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approaches, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car.. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his

 private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him.

He handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man's name embossed in gold.

Angrily, he raised his voice to his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible? "and stormed out of the house, leaving the Bible.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very old and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen Him since that graduation day.

But before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son.

He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago.

With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. His father had carefully underlined a verse, Matt 7:11 ,

"And if ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father which is in Heaven, give to those who ask Him?" As he read those words, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealers name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had

desired.. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words...

PAID IN FULL.

MORAL LESSON:

How many times do we miss God's blessings because they are not packaged as we expected?

A PRAYER FOR YOU!

May you never miss God's Christmas gift for you just because its not wraped and packed as you expect it.