What is it that you really want for Christmas? How would you answer that? Not in a hypothetical way, but in a real way. Take a moment.

What we all actually want for Christmas and in our lives the same thing: to be happy, yes, but we want more than that—a deep abiding JOY. Everyone wants this because it’s wired into us out of our creator… out of His JOY. We have JOY planted inside of us, the thing is, it’s been covered over, it’s hiding almost. 

We live in a world that is not the way it was created it to be and the way God wanted it to be. But when people push back and say “I don’t really trust God,” “I don’t need God,” that’s called sin. Every single person is under a curse and that curse is called sin. Everything that is supposed to be beautiful is a little bit tainted and twisted. Relationships are not beautiful all the time. Our own hearts get dark with weird impulses. Everything in the world is out of sync and sometimes it runs rampant. The curse has hit you because the whole planet is broken and affected by this sin thing. The Bible says God plants eternity in the hearts of us. We want JOY this Christmas because we know we’re made for it. You either trust God with that source of joy or you don’t. Will you trust God to be the source of your joy this Christmas?

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