(Post by: Lilly Hobbs)
The title of this post is a question I have been challenging myself with almost all of this week. If you’ve been around the church much, then I’m sure you know that we like to say “where are you at with Jesus” often. I have nothing against this question, I would simply like to ask it in a different way…
Who are you to Him?
I understand that we have so much fighting for our attention and time right now. Whether it be family, friends, parties, gifts, work, school, or even church. We all have stuff. We think that after this week is over, we will finally have time to spend with Jesus and get serious about living like Him. Life doesn’t usually work that way though, and if we continue living as the world does, it will only get busier and busier.
I’m going to be bold and write that maybe many of us are uncertain about who we genuinely are to Jesus, because we live for the noise, the busyness. Our arms never can stop flailing about. We can never sit still to seek Him. We despise quiet and if it begins to surround us, we fill it with other distractions.
We have allowed ourselves to become addicted to busyness. Most especially the busyness of the Christmas season. I want you to know, friend, that God is not a God of chaos and just maybe, He is inviting you to breathe in His peace and to let some things go.
I think the enemy has been successful in that, he has made this time so hectic that we don’t even realize that we’re missing the entire point and purpose of it. The coming of the Messiah, our King. The One who has redeemed our lives and shown us mercy and grace. If we’ve bought into the world’s point for Christmas, which is materialism, it’s almost impossible to take a minute to stop and fall in love with Jesus again.
Lamentations 3:25-28 says, “The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. Let him sit alone in silence, for the Lord has laid it on him.”
No one knows who you are to God, except you. Does He know you as a friend, as an acquaintance, as a good and faithful servant? Or do you find yourself to be a stranger to Him?
I love this translation of Psalm 46:10. It says, “Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Friend, I have great news for you today. You have always meant so incredibly much to Jesus. Take heart, knowing that He is God and that He is the most important thing. Cease your striving. Though you may be in the world, you are not of the world. Don’t you ever forget that.
So, the question truly becomes, does Jesus mean much to you? Does He mean much to us?
GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN
God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan’s pow’r
When we were gone astray
Oh tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
Oh tidings of comfort and joy
The Few 
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