A Gift to Change You...

As we enter the Advent season. When we focus on the coming of Jesus into our world, I would encourage you to look for those unexpected moments when God breaks into your consciousness in a new and challenging way.

The Jews had prayed long and hard for a saviour who would free them from oppressive Roman occupation. They had their own ideas of what that would be like, but God had a different idea. God sent a Saviour!

Not a warrior King who would raise up an army and by force free them from their oppression- but rather a tiny babe-symbol of amazing love. Fragile and weak but yet with the potential to change the world--not with the sword but with a message of peace and hope.

God is a God of surprises and God's ways are not our ways. Who would ever have imagined as they gazed on that sleeping child that he would inspire people through many generations to live lives of selfless love.

God continues to break into human lives in unexpected and life changing ways. I would encourage you, in the midst of all your Christmas busyness, to experience God in all His gracious fullness as you recognize those moments when God offers you yet another gift that will change your life.

Shalom,

Marj. Dredge
National Coordinator of Churches of Christ
Women’s Ministries Australia