Abide in Me

We don't really know the exact date of Jesus' birth. For whatever reason December 25th was the date chosen to celebrate His glorious birth.

My prayer for you this day we celebrate the birth the Lord Jesus Christ is you seek to KNOW this One more deeply, more intimately, and more truthfully in 2017.

The beautiful words of life-change from Jesus to me are these:
"I have come that you have life and have it abundantly." John 10:10

Are you living the abundant life He has given you through Himself? Friends, He is our abundant life. As we know more intimately (known and be known)- as we experience Him (grace, truth. love, joy, peace, patience, kind, good, faith, gentle )- we begin to understand what life is about. We begin to enjoy this life. We live this life instead of life living us.

I leave you with these beautiful words to us:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1:1-5

There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:9-13

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John *testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’” For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him." John 1:14-18