Christmas is in the air. The radio stations have switched over to 24-hour Christmas songs. The strangest is probably the one about wanting a hippopotamus for Christmas. Another favorite is wanting your two front teeth.
If Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, then we should ask, what would Jesus want for Christmas? Would Jesus ask for peace in Iraq or world peace? Would Jesus want a world fed, clothed, and sheltered? Would Jesus ask for justice everywhere?
Those things might be on his short list— From His heavenly Father.
To turn the question around, what should I give Jesus on his birthday? What do you get for the man who has all authority in heaven and on earth.
WWJW—What would Jesus want?
On Jesus’ birthday, the day we remember that God became flesh, we should ask what we can give others to let them know that this new birth changes us. And we should ask what of ourselves we can give to serve the one whose name is “exalted... above every name” (Phil 3.9).
May God bless you in this Christmas season.

Merry Christmas!