And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:14 New King James Version

Jesus is the bridge between Humanity and Divinity. In Him God is not only manifested to man, but vitally participated.

Christopher Dawson 1931

Today's Bible Question

What king was referred to by Jesus as "that fox?"

Previous question and Answer:

The Ethiopian eunuch that Philip witnessed to was the servant of what queen?

Candice (Acts 8:27-38)

Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions
Spurgeon's Morning for December 14	Spurgeon's Evening for December 14
"They go from strength to strength." - Psalm 84:7	"I am crucified with Christ." - Galatians 2:20
O thou of little faith, but then thou goest from strength to strength also. Thou shalt never find a bundle of affliction which has not bound up in the midst of it sufficient grace. God will give the strength of ripe manhood with the burden allotted to full-grown shoulders.	Beloved, what a blessed thing it is when the soul can, as it were, stretch itself upon the cross of Christ, and feel, "I am dead; the law has slain me, and I am therefore free from its power, because in my Surety I have borne the curse, and in the person of my Substitute the whole that the law could do, by way of condemnation, has been executed upon me, for I am crucified with Christ."

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December 14 Heb 8:1 - 10:39

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The Christmas Gift

A friend of mine named Paul received an automobile from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it. "Is this your car, Mister?" he asked.

Paul nodded. "My brother gave it to me for Christmas." The boy was astounded. "You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn't cost you nothing? Boy, I wish..." He hesitated.

Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the lad said jarred Paul all the way down to his heels.

"I wish," the boy went on, "that I could be a brother like that."

Paul looked at the boy in astonishment, and then impulsively he added, "Would you like to take a ride in my automobile?"

"Oh yes, I'd love that."

After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes aglow, said, "Mister, would you mind driving in front on my house?"

Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the lad wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big automobile. But Paul was wrong again. "Will you stop where those two steps are?" the boy asked.

He ran up the steps. Then in a little while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled brother. He sat him down on the bottom step, then sort of squeezed up against him and pointed to the car.

"There she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn't cost him a cent. And some day I'm gonna give you one just like it... then you can see for yourself all the pretty things in the Christmas windows that I've been trying to tell you about."

Paul got out and lifted the lad to the front seat of his car. The shingled-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them began a memorable holiday ride.

That Christmas Eve, Paul learned what Jesus meant when he had said, "It's more blessed to give...."

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Today's Devotion

... ...and by his light I walked through darkness! JOB 29:3 NIV

Happiness

by Pat Nordman

"A happy heart makes the face cheerful"

Proverbs 15:13

Abraham Lincoln once said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." In 1831 Lincoln failed in business; in 1832 he was defeated for the legislature; in 1833 he again failed in business; in 1835 his sweetheart died; in 1836 he had a nervous breakdown; in 1843 he was defeated for Congress; in 1855 he was defeated for the Senate; in 1856 he lost the race for the vice presidency; in 1858 he was defeated for the Senate; in 1860 he was elected President of the United States and, while president, two of his sons died. Although history has lionized Lincoln greatly , there is little doubt that he climbed to the top of his Calvary hills. He could have been the Anonymous who wrote, "The secret of happy living is not to do what you like but to like what you do."

"A cheerful heart is good medicine" Proverbs 17:22 RSV. "Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks." Charles Dickens. The opposite of cheer is worry. Henry Ward Beecher observed, "It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade." It also gives us worry wrinkles.

A cheerful heart is a contented heart. Discontent is a poison that spreads through our system when we decide that someone else is brighter, has more than we do, or is happier than we are. Change only two letters and we go from content to contempt. The word contentious begins with content. Perhaps we need to lop off the I-O-U-S from our life and get back to being content! It's too easy to get bogged down in what we think others owe us.

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Abraham Lincoln

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