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It truly is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Our home will officially be turned into “Christmas Village” over the Melbourne Cup weekend. We’ve already got the tunes of our favourite Christmas carols playing throughout the house. And I’m even using my ‘spiced Christmas’ diffuser oil.

I love Christmas! I love the fun. I love the festivities. I love the traditions. I love spending so much time with my family (this year we’ll even be attending our first ever tree-lighting ceremony!).

But one of the things that I love most about this season is that it represents God’s faithfulness to keep His promises.

God promised in Isaiah that He was sending His son to save His people. And Christmas is the fulfilment of that promise.

One of my favourite Christmas songs is This Little Child by Scott Wesley Brown.

Oh who would have thought this little child
Was who the prophets said?
Would take away the sins of man
And rise up from the dead!

Those words capitulate that the fulfilment of the promise had been given… yet a lot of people didn’t recognise it.

The promised Saviour, the one they’d been waiting and praying for, had arrived and was in their midst… yet they were unaware.

It’s like the lyrics to the song “Mary Did You Know?”

Did these people realise that God was ALREADY fulfilling the promise they were praying for?
Did they realise the MIRACLE they were asking God for, was currently growing up in Nazareth?
Did they know that God’s plan was well underway?

At Christmas time, it gives us this confidence that God will always fulfil His promises.
And it reminds us that the miracle could already be here, yet we are unaware.

How many people are believing for things, and the miracle has already begun, yet we don’t recognise it because it hasn’t fully matured?

  • Maybe the person you just met will be God’s contact to open the door that you’ve been believing for, for years.
  • Maybe the interview will turn into your dream job.
  • Maybe the project God’s told you to start will develop into something that will change people’s lives.
  • Maybe the time you’re sowing into your children will result in them fulfilling their callings.
  • Maybe the seed you sowed into the Church will be used to impact someone’s life in Bayswater for Jesus.

I pray this Christmas is a Christmas when our faith is inspired, encouraged and lifted as we see the faithfulness of God.