Monday Reading: Genesis 3:14-15
Key Verse: Genesis 3:15
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.
Devotion:
Have you ever asked yourself where the Christmas Story actually started? We look through our New Testaments and find so many references to angels and stars and think that that is where it all started, but yesterday we went several hundred years before Christ was born to see that it had started my earlier than just the months before Christ was actually born. Today we go back to the source when God first promised that Christ would be born. Today we see the first promise that our Saviour was to be born – a promise that waited thousands of years before it would come to pass, but that it did and our Saviour was born.
Have you ever tried to make a clay pot on a potter’s wheel? It is actually quite difficult to get that lump of clay to start forming in the right way. When you eventually start to think that things are going right you start to draw the clay up into some sort of cup shape, though it may look more like an ashtray than a cup, and just as you think it is starting to look right it all collapses in a heap... What do you do then? Do you start again and try again? Do you give up and go home? Do you fold the ends down and say you were making an ashtray anyway? The fact that things have failed should not stop you from trying again. Imagine then what you would do if you absolutely knew that what you were starting out with would fail and be destined as an ashtray? Would you start or would you move off to something else other than pottery?
God knew what we would do. He knew the price that He would have to pay. And yet He continued on so that we could be given that chance. His love for us was so great that He continued on with that clay, refusing to leave it as an ashtray but continued to work with it knowing how much He would have to do before it could be called His workmanship. God loves us more than we realise. His love for us goes deeper than we can imagine. His love is real! Christmas is real!
Points to Ponder:
How many times have you given up before you completed?
Did you know God is still working with you?
