Friday December 22, 2023
Numbers 6:24-25
“The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make His face shine upon you,
and be gracious to you.”
Christmas will soon be here.
But first comes the “Christmas rush.” To most people that is the ushering in of Christmas. And when Christmas finally does come, many are too tired to observe it.
“But, dear me, is that a time for scolding?” you inquire wearily.
No, I certainly do not desire to add a single stone to your burden. But permit me to send you a greeting now, while your burden is heaviest. At Christmas time, when your burden has been lightened, you will receive so many greetings.
A hearty greeting to you as you carry your burden. It is heavy enough ordinarily; and it does not become any lighter toward Christmas, when the days seem long and the nights short, when sleep is scarce and your body is tired.
We see how heavy-eyed and pale the courteous sales people in the stores are these days, how ready to sink from exhaustion our kind and diligent workers are.
And parents! Well, they must have everything done in good season, everything pertaining to the house and the children, to the cleaning and the baking, to the Christmas tree and the gifts. We notice, of course, that they are tired, even though they do not mention it. And those, who toil from early morning until late at night—they breathe many a sigh on their way home from their labors. How will they be able to make both ends meet? They would so much like to gladden the hearts of all in some measure at Christmas time.
I do not really know why it is this way, why we must go through the “Christmas rush” in order to get to Christmas. But I suspect the hand of the enemy back of it all, the hand of him who cannot endure to see Christmas on earth.
But since it seems that we must go through this tension before Christmas, permit me to express the wish that the Lord might bless you and keep you during these days.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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