WHEN Faith Has Heard the Master's Word

My dear mother and father holding my Rebecca and my niece, Tamara
(Mother made the girls' velvet, Christmas dresses.)
Christmas, 1982

"But WHEN the set time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are His sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, 'Abba, Father.' So you are no longer a slave, but God's child, and since you are His child, God has made you also an heir." (Gal. 4:4-7)


            On the only white Christmas I can remember from childhood, "Santa" just happened to bring a super, cool Flexible Flyer Sled! 

         The Preacher of Ecclesiastes wrote, "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens;"  and Acts 17:26-27 teaches that from one man, God made every nationality over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live so that people might seek Him. 

Therefore, my friend, your WHEN and where of this Christmas season is a divine appointment. Make the most of the opportunity! Seek God and bless others with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

O sing of Bethlehem, 

Of shepherds watching there,

And of the news that came to them 

From angels in the air.

The light that shone on Bethlehem 

Fills all the world today;

Of Jesus' birth and peace on earth 

The angels sing alway.

O sing a song of Galilee, 

Of lake and woods and hill,

Of Him who walked upon the sea 

And bade its waves be still;

For tho like waves on Galilee, 

Dark seas of trouble roll,

WHEN faith has heard the Master's word, 

Falls peace upon the soul. 1

1 O SING A SONG OF BETHLEHEM. Louis F. Benson, 1899.