jealous King

Our God is jealous... and rightfully so.

He doesn't just want to be first in our lives He wants to be the only.

The only one that holds our adoration, the only one we worship and promote, the only one we praise and talk about, the only source, our only center, our only celebration.

He wants us to not only take a back seat to Him but to give Him the car completely.

That is probably why He is not that popular with most, even people that call themselves "Christians".

Naturally because of our sinful hearts we want to be first, we want to be in control, we want to worship whatever we wish, celebrate whatever we want, live like we want. Like a selfish, stubborn 2 year old... we act out....rebel against Him.

But the truth is, we are just the created not the creator, He is God and whatever choice we have has been allowed/given by Him.

God is love. He is the Creator and He knows how His created will find the most joy this life has to offer. In Him.

He is Love. His plan has been to bring us back to Himself...where we can have the peace He created. Therefore He did the unthinkable.... He came as the lowliest in the lowliest of setting so that we all would know we are loved and accepted as is...so that we would see love in action. No "god", nothing you would put before Him has this kind of love or is this kind of love.

He is worthy of being our only focus our only celebration.

Two great Christmas Children's book about such simple yet profound beauty...

and

A great video

Colossians 1:19-20

¹⁹ For God in all his fullness

was pleased to live in Christ,

²⁰ and through him God reconciled

everything to himself.

He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth

by means of Christ’s blood on the cross