day 3K236: Gifts Of Work – Today Is What We Were Preparing For

“When they saw the star, they were filled with joy!”

I received a Christmas card that had this saying in it, “This present moment used to be the unimaginable future.” I love that, because in our work we dream, imagine, plan, prepare, strive and work so hard for what feels at the time as an unimaginable future, until it isn’t and we get to the gift of today; the day when the future is the present.  What a gift of work it is to know that the future we expect, if we work at it, can become a reality.  So, today, let’s not fret over the future but instead start getting excited for what will come.

The coming of Jesus was predicted.  He was the future that over the generations many stopped believing, maybe even forgetting that the unimaginable day would ever happen.  And then it did and those who found the unimaginable future to be their present day were filled with joy!  Joy! That is what we will celebrate in a few weeks. Let’s prepare our hearts to experience all of the joy that God has to give us!

Reference:  Matthew 2:10 (New Living Translation)