Suzanne and I got to babysit our 5-month-old granddaughter, Iris, for the past three days. Oh, the simple joys of waking up a little one from her many naps to see her beaming face with her little legs kicking in gleeful delight! To be honest, we forgot how much energy and attention a little one this age requires—but the bonding moments of bottle-feeding her while she gripped my thumb in one of her tiny hands and my pinkie in the other, or of rocking her to sleep and feeling her little heart beating against mine, made all the effort seem insignificant in comparison!
Friends, this is the miracle of Christmas—that Elohim would come to us in the person of Jesus because love would go to any lengths to bond with us and to capture our gaze of affection in return—our hearts beating side by side in the eternal enjoyment of our union! And even though Jesus would grow from an infant to a man who would take on the sin of the world, in the end, this to him was insignificant in comparison to the joy of being with us forever!
We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectation onto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God!
Hebrews 12:2-3 (TPT)
Merry Christmas with Love,
Brent & Suzanne Lokker | 
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