PSALM WE NOW OF CHRISTMAS

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He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction. Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!
Psalm 107:20‭-‬22 ESV

The Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing, invites us to receive from God the blessings of healing and deliverance, and much more. He offers thirsty people not just water, but a spring of water, welling up to eternal life, to never be thirsty again, a river of living water, flowing out of us. He offers us not just healing, but a return, not just to the life we had before we got sick or injured, but a return all the way back to the garden, to fellowship with Him, as Adam and Eve walked with Him in the cool of the day. We may actually participate in the divine nature through the very great and precious promises He has given us (2 Peter 1:4). God's Word does not just go forth and do some things and then depart. It came, He comes, to stay, to dwell among us.

So God imparts
To human hearts
The blessings of His Heaven.

He comes to us,
abides with us,
Our Lord Immanuel!

Jesus is so close, isn't He? The Kingdom is right here. It flickers in the corner of the eye, bidding us to turn and gaze. Zaccheus in the tree, the woman with the blood-issue, the little children, the man born blind, Nathaniel under the fig tree: Jesus noticed them all, and bid them come. When we slow down and stop thinking about ourselves long enough, we can't miss it!

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