‘THE ESSENCE OF THE PARTY’

Hello friends, trust you are doing good.

Already we are in the Christmas season and safely, I can say that the ‘Christmas fever’ has caught us all. But briefly I’d like to share a short story with us, though a sad one but I believe we’ll get the message.

 Its about a family who, after trusting God for a child for some time, finally got one and when the day of the naming ceremony came, I trust we know how colourful and ‘loaded’ it was going to be, the mother of the child was like the happiest person on earth that day moving from chair to chair, room to room, person to person, just greeting everyone who turned up, as the gust were arriving, she was welcoming them with a bright smile on her face and expressed total joy and happiness that day. the Father of the child also couldn’t hide his joy as he just felt like he was above the world at that time and was over-joyous.

Then a guest arrived, who just went over to meet the mother of the child, asking to see the baby. so, the mother took the guest to where the baby was laid, lo and behold, the baby wasn’t there, they searched everywhere for the child but it just was nowhere to be found.

Now that’s a sad story, but lets try and guess what would happen to the party after the child was found to be missing; definitely, the party cant continue, why? Because the Essecnce of the party is missing. But lets assume that the father of the child hears of the news and decides to continue with the party forgetting about what has happened, wont we term such a father ‘a fool’, ‘stupid man’ and all sort of things. But honestly today, many of us act like that father. How? You’ll ask me; many of us celebrate Christmas (the birth of Jesus) when the real essence of the ‘party’ is missing in our lives, or how can we celebrate someone we don’t even know. So, my point is that before we go on with the celebration, it’s a good time to check our lives if the essence of our celebration is there, if He is not its best to invite Him today or else our celebration would just be a dead one.

GOD BLESS