Devotional Archives for Encouragement for Today

The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means 'God is with us') (Isa. 7:14). Somewhere in the midst of all the preparations, I got tangled up in Christmas lights and unrealistic expectations. By the time everyone got here I couldn't wait for them to leave.

Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all (1 Chron. 29:11). That's how it is when God wants to get my attention - He interrupts my self-centered thoughts in such a startling way, it can only be Him.