Helper at Christmas

He told me to tell you that

I’m writing this in my office with the central heat blowing, and it feels good. I’m drinking a cup of coffee out of my favorite mug and I’m listening to Dean Martin sing Jingle Bells on my smartphone. First World problems.

For some reason UPS has decided we don’t live where we live. What I’m saying is someone in Texarkana that works the graveyard shift changes our zip code and our on-line orders end up in Rockdale, Round Rock, Shreveport and Houston ,among other places.

Some end up at our old address where we have not lived for almost two years. Of course the Blonde has been on the phone and been on phone and been on the phone, but no one will climb down in the pit with her and solve the problem.

With Christmas packages on their way you can see how we are little anxious. All of this makes me rethink, “What can Brown do for you?” Brown could tell Teresa on the 3rd shift in Texarkana to stop changing our address and just deliver our stuff to the address we give Vineyard Vines, J. Crew, etc.

I was reading in Isaiah 53. It says that Jesus was “despised and rejected…a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief… oppressed…afflicted” and he was judged. That sounds like another day in the office right?

Of course they don’t haul us up to the town garbage dump and nail us to a tree but I hope you get the point that Jesus gets you. He understands your pain and the suffering and the hardship you endure. He has been there and done that but on a whole other scale.

But here’s the deal, we have to keep the things we complain and worry about in perspective. Missing a couple of packages or even six or seven is not a very big deal compared to being pregnant and not being able to get a hotel room (Luke 2:7). We get uptight if Pandora buffers and Bing Crosby doesn’t come on fast enough with White Christmas.

Did you know some people have real problems and the holidays don’t always help? I know some reading this are experiencing their first Christmas without some of their loved ones, I’m sorry and I’m praying for you.

One of the things about Christmas is that in order to leave Jesus had to come and He told us as He left He would not leave us alone but that He would send a Helper (who doesn’t want a personal assistant), a Comforter (John 14:16, 26).

Take advantage of this great promise, draw near to God and God will draw near to you (James 4:8) and let the Holy Spirit (the Helper) bless you with peace that eliminates fear, a peace that creates a contentment and protects your heart and your mind (Philippians 4:7). Let those promises be a part of your Christmas.

He told me to tell you that.