Do You Sing What I Sing?

As much as I love singing Christmas carols, I confess to not paying much attention to the meaning of the words at times. I saw a cartoon the other day that brought that truth home to me. There was a picture of the manger, baby Jesus and the wise men. In the picture were the words of the 1962 hymn, “Do You Hear What I Hear” – “A Child, a Child shivers in the cold. Let us bring Him silver and gold.” The caption underneath the picture was one of reality – “Couldn’t you just have brought him a blanket?” What will you give to the Lord this Christmas? We annually give monetary Christmas offerings for missions, for the homeless, for goodwill, and for numerous other worthy causes. The better question is, will what you give to the Lord this year be something of practical value or just more monetary value? Perhaps this Christmas, in addition to “silver and gold” we could give Him time and talent, work and worship. Only when our service matches our silver and our going matches our gold, can we hear what we should hear and sing what we should sing.

Join me this week in remembering the following global prayer concerns:
• Pray for Anja as she adjusts to her new place of service in Bonn, Germany.
• Pray for 3.9 billion unreached people in the world with limited or no access to the Gospel.
• Pray for Karl and Julie as they continue to raise financial support so they can return to Serbia in June. We
• Pray for someone to donate a seven or twelve passenger van for a church start on Vancouver Island, Canada.