Christmas Morning

Well If you haven't noticed by now most of my posts come really late at night after I spend some personal time with God. I really enjoy doing these posts because it kind of is away to hold myself accountable and make sure I am spending time with him. Well I don't want to be long because it is Christmas morning and if Santa came by and saw I was still awake I would be in some trouble. Ha jk but today was a good day I woke up around nine and started helping my dad around the house with all the stuff that needed to get done. We put a good sized hole in our roof just so we could patch it up. Well we didn't really want to put the whole there but we had to in order to fix the leak we had going on from the previous sun window. The whole patching the roof got me to thinking though without God what are we? We are just like that roof before it was patched, we are just there and when it comes to a hard time we begin to leak out everywhere. But when we get patched by God our lives completely change. We no longer leak, we aren't just an empty surface sitting doing nothing. God calls us to be a new person. We are to be transformed from the old leaky roof to the new steady roof that God has fixed. Sure we will still have problems that come up and issues that we must face but now we have God along side with us to go through everything hand in hand with us. How great is that? The God of all thing wants to be a part of our lives.
While reading in my quiet time tonight I decided reading the Christmas story over again would be a great thing to do since it is Christmas and all. I read in Luke tonight the first two chapters. While reading I discover a man whom had a deal with God saying that no matter what he would not die until he saw the messiah. How amazing is that really? I mean how great of faith and great of a God follower must this guy have been, that he would/could not die until he saw the messiah. Blows me away to think of how great our God is and how he always comes through on his promises. I don't know about you but I would love to have the kind of relationship with God that he tells me deals and such. I know I do have the relationship but I desire to have so much more than a quick read or a quick talk. I want to know him so much more! Well its Christmas morning and everyone will probably begin to wake up in the next five hours so its probably best that I go to bed. One thing I learned today, no matter how good we are at whatever it would not even matter if God hadn't given us that talent in the first place. Isn't he amazing? Spend sometime today thanking him for sending his son to the world to die for us so that we could have a relationship with him.
Verse of the day: Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.