From The Pastor’s Pen – By Brian Horrobin
Have you ever been to Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, Michigan?
It is the world’s largest Christmas store and covers some six football fields in size.
As you walk through their west entrance your eyes are met with an overwhelming abundance of everything ‘Christmas’, from ornaments of every kind, to a plethora of decorated trees, bright lights, mantel displays, and much, much more.
To a Christmas lover, like my daughter, Tori, it is a bit of heaven on earth.
You could spend several days in this store and not experience all of it.
God’s goodness is just like that. Look at what it says in Psalm 31:19: “How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.”
Isn’t that amazing?
God has actually stored up His goodness for us!
It says it even better in The Message paraphrase, translated by the late Rev. Eugene Peterson: “What a stack of blessing You have piled up for those who worship You, ready and waiting for all who run to you to escape an unkind world.”
God has so much for us to enjoy but we need to realize that the most precious treasure that God gives us is Himself.
That’s the message of Christmas and that’s the message of the cross and the empty grave.
It’s not always quantity, either.
When I get a note on my birthday from one of my children and read their kind words I feel the goodness of God spilling out and covering me all over.
I could say the same about a nice meal my wife prepares or coffee with a childhood friend.
Start looking around and take notice of some of those goodness stacks that God has piled up for you.
Dig in, my friend!
