“Let us rejoice for a change”

“There is no God without Christmas.”

Do you believe in God? Everyone answers to this question with a sounding YES! The scriptures say, “ Good, even the devil believes in God and trembles.”

What makes you think you believe in God? Have you seen God? God is spirit and invisible and no one has seen or can see God. The only way we can see God is through revelation.

Revelation is that which was previously hidden. Revelation is God making himself visible and that is what Christmas is all about.

Baby Jesus is God in human form. Jesus is the revelation of God. God was in Jesus visiting us to reconcile us unto himself and he has given unto us his servants the ministry of reconciliation as if God himself would be begging through us to be reconcile with God. Any other idea of Jesus and Christmas is false and should be cursed if it does not represent the Incarnation and revelation of God himself in a child meek a mild.

Look not the Sun, the Moon and the planets to know God and believe in him, because they are only servants of God on duty. If you must look up to the stars, then look at the start of Bethlehem whose only job was to lead and shed light over the Son of God Jesus.

The worth of the Christmas tree is in the start of Bethlehem. Believe in God!! Look unto Jesus. “Know Jesus know God, no Jesus no God.” There is only one Jesus and there is only one God. There is only one savior and only one Lord. There is only one way to heaven and Jesus is the way. There is only one life and that comes from the person of Jesus who blew into the nostrils of Adam his breath and made out of him a living being. There is only one truth and that truth is not a concept but a person and he is Jesus the mind and the will of God.

No one comes to the Father but by the Prince of Peace, the Mighty God and Everlasting Father namely Jesus. Stop scanning the sky for God, because he is not beyond the galaxies as an object to be found but he is a whisper away separated only by a razor thin distance closer than he can possible be from you but so far to human senses and understanding at the present time. Meanwhile look unto baby Jesus and enjoy the sight of the toddlers at home including the toddler within you this Christmas.

Do not take yourself to seriously this Christmas, Let the little child in you come to Jesus this Christmas and sit in Jesus’ lap instead of old Santa and let him bless you afresh even as you bless others with your self-given love.
Will you please enjoy Christmas as never before by faith and in your mind? What do you have to lose? If you truly believe in God, you will find easy in childlikeness to enjoy Christmas this year more than the previous years.

Have a Merry and Joyful Christmas my friends.
From your half soldier wounded warrior brother who wants nothing but rehab as another opportunity to serve king Jesus. Pray for the gift of health in Jesus for by his wounds we are healed.

Gerry Gutierrez.

PS. Family Update:

Osman works hard in the overnight shift as one of the managers in Amazon. Janett is a teacher and their little family moves everyday as well oiled machine in school activities and sports that I hardly see them once every two or three months and that briefly.
Lois and Matthew are by call and vocation hospitable to the whole family one time or another they have four children including one in college. They live in Arcadia California in a church planting business in a rented house and have Benjie with them. They have so kindly invited me to stay with them to help me in my helpless situation after my stroke. Pray for the housing situation even though they have made room in the Inn for me I do not want to be a burden to them and the family.
Nathaniel is in Tacoma on Home Ministry Assignment unwinding from the stressful work they left in Peru.
Super Benjie is a survivor of many battles and is about to face another large hernia surgery anytime. He is a hard worker in a detailed car wash company and loves to make friends with the owners of Ferraris and Lamborghinis and Maseratis and Teslas.
Caleb and Kelly are in Tacoma Washington happily married and enjoying their new daughter little Aaliyah Kay. They could use a better Job in Tacoma instead of traveling all the way to Seattle for work.
‟I have no greater joy than to see my children walking in the truth” including my grand children.