Open Up Your Heart

I've been thinking a lot about love and broken hearts. How sometimes once we are hurt so badly we find it difficult to allow anyone close. How we build walls to protect ourselves so as not to go through that terrible pain again. It is certainly human to wall ourselves up after such pain but then I remember Jesus. No one was hurt as badly as Jesus. Not one of us will ever experience the pain he went through because of love.

He came from heaven and was born in a lowly manger. The mighty son of God chose to come to earth because of love. He knew he was our only salvation. Our only way back to God. With out him we would be lost forever. Living in our sin and our fear exiled from our loving Heavenly Father.

Love made God give his only son. Love made Jesus die on the cross and supreme love allowed him to rise again. It's that love that sets us free and unites us with the Father once again. So no matter what life throws at us we must not close off our heart. As we celebrate this wondrous time of his birth let us remember how much love surrounded it.

You are loved for who you are not for where you were born or what you may have in this life. You are loved for you. If you had been the only one in all the generations past and all the generations to come that would see the supreme sacrifice that Jesus made and accept him he would still have been born. He would still have went through the pain and agony of his death and been broken for you. You are loved that much.

Never doubt your importance. Never doubt the significance of your birth. Whether you have been told you are loved all your life or whether you have not. You are loved. I don't care what others may have told you or what things you have done or what has happened to you in the past. You are loved. Jesus is waiting for you to see it, for you to realize it. Let this Christmas be your rebirth. Allow the love of Jesus to flood your heart. Accept all that he is waiting to give you. He did it all for you.

Out of the brokenness rose up a fragrance and a divine covering that can not ever be washed away. Soaked in the love of Jesus our brokenness will be like a beautiful Mosaic penetrating the very realm of heaven itself. This Christmas soak up the love that Christ is pouring down to you. A healing balm that will dry all your tears and restore you to wholeness. Such a love that can only come from God.

Have a blessed Christmas. Until we meet again, God Bless.