Luke 2:10 But the angel said, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.

Many have wondered what an angel looks like. Has he two feet? Six wings or two? Have they ranks among themselves? Can they be seen? 

In a time, where others look for U.F.O.s, they seem to miss one point: Angels are probably that, unidentified flying objects. They bring good news of great joy to the shepherds. They fight the good fight. Do they dance? Do they dance on the famous needle tip? Scripture says they sing. 

Did you ever think heaven might be boring? Think again. That's were the power is and the party, just we can't see it now. Doesn't hinder them being happy and glorious. And full of God's power. Might be a dangerous object to encounter. Or fascinating. Shining brightly with God's light. Some days I can hardly wait to be there, so much beauty and power in one place! Heaven is a wonderful place.

Isaiah 43:19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

God did a wonderful and new thing when Jesus came to earth. Many were quite shocked at the way he put his only beloved son not into greatest glory and majesty, but in a manger with a barely wed girl. Many a shocked today at this. Is this the most powerful God, who created heavens and stars and worlds? It is. He has taught us to look for him in new places. I wish you and myself that we may find him there, where he has pointed us to and bow in humility before his eternal wisdom and grace. Sing to God a new song and make a path for his ways, please. Many blessings are promised to the one who will search for the light and not turn back, neither by bribery nor by threat. May his love be around me and you. Have a wonderful and truly joyful Christmas.

Revelation 20:15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Our society is based upom names written in books or on sheets of paper or nowadays in computer files. Be it a birth certificat, a pay-check, a letter, alwyas there has to be a name on it, somebody whom it is talking about, somebody whom it is addressed to.

They are important, those papers. Loosing them means loosing part of the identity, part of what I think I am. My name on those papers tells me who I am. On graduation or driving-test, on building a company or going to a party. It is important to have the name that belongs to me written on the right lists. It became popular with many celebrities trying to enter certain parties where they were unknown. Not on the guest list. No way to get in. Not even for a celebrity.

How much more exclusive even though on a different standard will God's list be. Is my name written upon it? Do I live so that my name is in there? That I made it clear? That's the party I want to join? To be greeted at the entry with a merry: "Come in!" "Welcome." 

What books, what papers is my name written upon? Which ones are important? Where is my priority? Where do I want to get in? And you? I want to go to heaven. I know. I want to join God's party. Nothing else will do. Will I meet you there? I'd love to. 

Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

God will take care of his own people. He has not always be very tender with them. To educate and test them, he has put terrible challenges and choice before them Just consider this verse: 2 Kings 6:28
Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’  Isn't that a terrible verse? A verse that seems to contradict all human feeling? But then, do we know who we'd be tomorrow, if that morrow brings mourning and sorrow? If it brings hunger so vast, that mothers think about eating their own children in order to survive. 

Can you be sure, what tomorrow will be made of? To many it is only more of the same. More work, more washing, more cooking, more driving, more yelling and being yelled at. And so on. If there is no peace between me and God today, tomorrow brings no new hope, as much as I'd like it to be.

But those who have found peace with God, even in the midst of terrible temptations they can lean back and not worry about tomorrow. For with the challenge God will bring new ways to get by. To get a little closer to heaven. Not only tomorrow. Today.

Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Light falling on a person or a thing reveals a lot of information. For we gather information through our eyes and to see we need light. Without light, to us, nothing is. There have been discussions in science, 100 years ago. If things are if they are not seen or known. Is the coffee-cup behind your back there, when you don't watch it? Where should it go you wonder? Well, if you don't give it a name and a sense, it may just be there but without purpose. If it is there at all. 

Is God there if we don't see him? We believe he is. Is he there, if nobody believes in him? We believe he is. That's called idealistic. Thinking things are whether I know it or not. Whether I see it or not. 

Turn the question around and it makes more sense to me. Is there naything if nobody perceives it? God does. There is nothing his light doesn't shine on. And his light changes perception as much as a color added to a spot changes the color of the object. 

If your shirt is blue in blue light, what color will it have in white light? Still blue? or white? God's presence changes the light we live in and many things we used to call blue may well be white.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son....

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son....

Most of us know that verse. If we know only one verse it may well be this. Pondering it in my mind while I listen to some christmas tune, this thought was coming up. Christmas, as happy as we celebrate it, wasn't a happy day. It wasn't happy for God, even though he did what he had decided to do to give us a chance. Yet. knowing all as he did, it cannot have been a happy decision to give his precious son for our salvation. Salvation of a band of disturbed children that wouldn't even value the gift given and not comprehend its immense beauty and intent.

It probably wasn't all too comfotable for Jesus either, being born into a hostile world, into poverty, into certain death. To leave a so much better place behind, even if only for a moment counted short in front of eternity. 

I wouldn't enjoy leaving even my warm and comfortable little place for a stable, much less heaven. Just think! No, it is unthinkable.

Psalm 74:16 The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.

I love looking at the moon, whether he is bright or barely visible, full or half, he seems to comfort me, just looking at him. For there is a power working in this universe that keeps the sun and the moon and the stars in its appointed place. As big as they are, they should fall or roll around chaotically or stand. Instead they move as if in a complicated dance with grace and precision one towards the other, each knowing its place. Whether you believ in science or not, (I believe rather in God), it is a miracle and a wonder to the eye and the heart. Who taught the moon to dance? Who taught the stars to shine? Who told the earth to spin? God does. In him is the why and the what well hidden. Some hundreds of years ago man thought the earth was flat with the sun and the stars pinned to a coverlike sky. Know we "know" so much more. i wonder, what we will "know for sure" in a 100 years from now. And whether we will know more about the power of God.