Countdown….
Ok it’s Friday night, we have just finished a really long day at the office getting ready for several services that await us over the next few days. The music, media and messages are for the most part in place and so now we simply wait…we countdown.
Oh, not just for the services…and hopefully not just for the presents, food and festivities…but for the thing that really counts - a living encounter with the King of Kings. I sound downright religious don’t I. But honestly it’s true. I look forward to our services…and I really look forward to some presents and watching family - especially the grandkids open theirs. This will be the first for Sophia and Brayden so it will be fun. Sophia will be more enamored with the wrapping paper than the presents and at 2 months Brayden Bear will be still clueless. So Sarah will get the lion’s share of attention…it should be fun.
But I sincerely don’t want to miss the majesty because I have tasted it before this time of year. Once again this year I look forward to getting up early Christmas morning for my personal worship service! I love it.
It’s what the countdown is really all about. So soon I will get my Bible, a great Christmas worship CD or two, and a smokin hot cup of Starbucks coffee (Christmas blend of course) in hand and praise, read, worship and watch the sun rise. I will once again be reminded by the baby in the small Nativity set in the living room, that it was the same baby we honor that created the sun I am watching come over the horizon….AND I WILL WORSHIP HIM!
So may the countdown begin…and pray that you and I don’t miss the real deal!
