Sealed With A Kiss

My two-year-old keeps stealing the baby Jesus from our Nativity. His big brother used to do the same thing. We have found the tiny figurine in the bed sheets, in the Christmas tree branches, riding in a toy train, and if I remember correctly, one morning we found it tucked into my son’s pajamas.

The other day, my littlest one was carrying the baby Jesus figurine around the house, kissing it and saying, “Thank You, Jesus!” over and over.

It was sweet, but it was more more than that.

It was the appropriate response to Jesus.

Yes. What he said...

Thank You, Jesus.

For the coming, for the living, for the dying, for the resurrecting, for the ascending…thank You.

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:16, NASB)

God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life. (John 3:16, New Century Version)

This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.  (John 3:16-18, The Message)

Ambushed by God,
Kimberly