A Twist on Christmas . . .

This morning as I was reading the Global Prayer Digest, I received a different twist on Christmas.  As Sam and I were talking about it, he reminded me of something one of our former pastors had said - that peace is addressing what is truly wrong so forgiveness and healing can happen.  May you have peace this Christmas.

Ahmadiyyas in the Middle East Dec 25, 2013 12:00 am Today's Devotional Revelation 12:4 "The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that he might devour it the moment it was born." The book of Revelation gives us a dramatic look at the Christmas story. Though we often think of the birth of Christ in peaceful, joyful terms, there is another side to the story. The birth of Christ was an invasion of earth by the kingdom of God. It was the inauguration of the last battle over the kingdom of darkness that eternal history will ever know. Clearly Satan understood that with the coming of Christ into this world, his days were numbered. For as the gospel of the Kingdom advances throughout the whole world, the closer the Day of Judgment approaches.