Heaven waited and watched in anticipation of the birth of a child.
It was a child that God had thought about long before the child entered this world. It was a child God loved immeasurably, with every ounce of His infinite love. It was a child that would make the Father laugh, and cry, and feel proud. It was a child whose birth God had anticipated since before the creation of the world.
This child was not Jesus. This child was you.
Ephesians 1:4 says,”Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ…”
Imagine that! In a world that seems to do all it can to devalue you, to make you feel insignificant and unimportant, God says He was thinking about you and loving you even before His first act of creation.
If there is one thing you come to know well in the New Year, I hope it is this: you are loved intimately, intensely, and completely by the God of the universe. And He wants you to know it.
Be Blessed!