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Dear Christian Believers,
It's the beginning of another
New Year! I was blessed again this year to be able to
spend time with believers over the holiday break. There
was a mini Youth Advance in Orlando , Florida the day
after Christmas until right before the New Year. Cathy
Reichel taught a little over 20 of us youth about Christian
counseling. We learned the importance of listening, helping
people realize what they want or don't want, and how to
help them achieve their goals. Mainly we learned that
if you just listen and ask good questions people will
figure it out themselves. (I guess that is why God gave
us two ears and one mouth, right?)
This past weekend I realized
that miracles could be normal situations with God's phenomenal
timing. It's just God's timing that makes the certain
situations phenomenal. In Genesis 1:14 it says: “God said,
let there be light in the firmament of the heaven and
divide the day from the night: and let them be for signs
and seasons and for days and years.”
In the Bible times people
kept track of the days, months, and years by the movement
of the stars and planets, much like we do today. When
Jesus Christ was born there was a lot happening in the
stars. The stars and planets presented themselves in a
very unusual way leading up to Jesus' birth. It was normal
for the stars to be that way at that time, and the Magi
had been studying the stars and planets movement for quite
awhile. It gave the Magi, the smart people of the time,
a clue that something big was happening. The stars and
planets were shifting and taking their place since God
created the stars and set them in motion. It was God's
perfect timing that made the motion of the stars and the
time of our savior's birth so significant. God had it
all figured out to the tiniest detail! How perfect is
that?
Are the stars so bizarre
that we have no understanding of what they are? If our
loving heavenly Father is a God of timing, and simplicity,
then why do we wait for something to cosmic to happen
before we will believe God and His word and trust Him?
Something cosmic has already taken place: the birth, crucifixion,
and resurrection of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:4 & 5:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before him in love.
5 Having predestined us
unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself
according to the good pleasure of His will.
God's love is unconditional!
He chose us before the foundation of the world, because
it gave Him pleasure, not because we were good enough.
God knew that we would mess up, but He loved us even when
He knew we would mess up. That is how much He loves us.
How many more signs do we need?
I love all of you; always
remember how much God love you.
Karen Tallman
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