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Pastor's Corner
To Our Dear Belmont Family,
“Memories”
“And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” 1 Corinthians 15:49
When my daughter was younger, around this time of year, she would start singing the song “Something About Christmastime”. One of my many Christmas memories. There certainly is something about Christmas that changes you, after all Christmas changed the whole world.
One of my childhood memories of Christmas was getting the Christmas tree. My father would go up on the hill behind our house and find a pine. It would look like a Charley brown Christmas tree. My dad would begin to fix that tree. He would drill holes in it, cut branches from other pine trees, put those branches into the tree, and when he was done it always looked perfect.
I can relate to that tree as well as what Paul said in Corinthians. Christmas has changed me, because Christmas is all about Jesus, and Jesus has changed me. Much like that tree, I’m a fixer upper. Jesus is in the fixer upper business. Paul gives us a Jesus promise. Because we are all sinners, our image before Jesus reflexes the image of the earthly, the image of sin. Jesus went to the Cross to change our image. When we come to Jesus a broken down sinner and ask Jesus into our heart to save from that sin, His Holy Spirit comes into us and begins to change our image of the earthly to the image of the heavenly.
We all may have memories and Christmas traditions and that is great. In all that goes along with Christmas let us not lose track that Jesus is the reason for Christmas. Jesus came into this world with a Cross in His future. A Cross that can change our image of the earthly to the image of the heavenly, the image of Jesus.
Maybe you, like me, are a fixer upper. Have no fear, Jesus specializes in fixer uppers. Allow Jesus to change your image this Christmas.
Something About Christmas Time,
Pastor Tom and Sherri
