It’s pop quiz time! Whoever guesses the answer first wins. Ready? Here we go. What is a one-word, three-letter question that 3 and 4-year-olds ask a lot?
Did you guess it? That’s right, it’s the question, “Why?” It’s a popular question for little ones and even for adults. Asking that question usually helps us understand something more fully, doesn’t it?
What if asking it now, at Christmas time, could help us understand something a little more? Let’s try it.
Why did Jesus come all the way from heaven to be born into this world as a baby and later grow up to be the man who saved us from our sins? You could answer that in a few different ways but if you really had to narrow it down to just one reason, maybe even just one word, what would it be?
L O V E. He did it all for love.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16).
Can you even imagine how big is God’s love for us?
Think about when a mom says to her son, “I love you to the moon and back.” Her love for him is soooo big that she helps him understand it by telling him how far it reaches. But she helps him understand that love even more by showing him that great love every day.
Sometimes it’s hard for us to understand just how much God continues to love us. Perhaps we could pray a prayer we find in the Bible to help us:
“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” (Eph. 3:16-19)
Understanding God’s love motivates us to love Him back. The Bible says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.” (Luke 10:27)
As we prepare to celebrate Jesus’ birthday, one of the best gifts we can give Him, the gift He will most appreciate, is love. We can love Him and we can love others.
What are some ways we can show love to others this Christmas and throughout the year?
- Bake cookies and wrap them up for your neighbors, a postal worker or cashier at the grocery store.
- Spend quality time with someone and really listen to him/her. Be interested in what they care about and like.
- Write a letter and let someone know how much they mean to you and what makes them special.
- Do a task around the house without being asked and without complaining.
Here’s the last quiz question for the day: What are you going to do this week to show love to someone?
Let us go be radiant, or in Christmas terminology, let us go be bright.
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Wishing you a love-filled Christmas.
Go Be Radiant 
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