A Light in the Window

Advent & Christmas 

December 29, 2023

A Light in the Window

Blessed are those who wash their robes. They will be permitted to enter through the gates of the city and eat the fruit from the tree of life.

Revelation 21:14 

Cheryl and I started a tradition several years ago. Every Sunday morning at breakfast, we pick a blessing, places where we have experienced God moving in our lives, from the previous week and make a note of it on a slip of paper. We put the paper in a quart mason jar. This Sunday, New Year’s Eve, we will gather around our Christmas decorations and put all those slips of paper in a basket. Then, one by one, we will review all our many blessings from 2023. This has been a wonderful year for us, and our Blessing Jar is overflowing with the goodness of God. (And, on Sunday, January 7, 2024, we will start filling the jar once again!) 

Our circumstances differ, but there is one essential truth that is for all the followers of Jesus Christ. When we reach our eternal destination, we will lift our heads, and we all will see a light in the window of God’s Mansion, with a sign on the door,

“Welcome Home, My Beloved.”

I pray this eternal truth will guide you as you take time to review your life of 2023 and set your sails for 2024:

Your Heavenly Father is head-over-heels,

passionately in love with you.

You are His beloved child,

with whom He is delighted

and upon whom His favor rests.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

Copyright © 2023 by Alex M. Knight

 

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