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Devotion ArchiveWeek of January 4, 2010Merry Christmas and Happy Epiphany! Today is the one day of the year when, technically speaking, you can say both of those things. Traditionally, Christmas is not just a “day” but rather a “season” (it begins on December 25th and lasts for 12 days). As the season of Christmas concludes on January 6, the season of Epiphany begins. What is “epiphany”? The word means “appearance” or “revealing.” The church celebrates the “appearance” and “revealing” of Jesus as the Light and Savior of the world during the season of Epiphany. It also often remembers how the Wise Men saw the star “revealed” to them and followed its light to the “appearance” of God in the flesh of a human in young Jesus. My prayer is that all of us might enjoy an “epiphany” as we begin 2010. I pray that the Holy Spirit, working through the light of God’s Word, might reveal to our heads and hearts that more than anything else in 2010, we need the light of Jesus. We need to see our sins forgiven and saving finished in the child from Bethlehem who died on the cross in Jerusalem. We need to see Jesus’ love for us as the cause for security and worth in our lives. We need to bask in the light of that love, and enjoy the peace that only that love can give. The most important thing we can do (even more important than losing weight, getting out of debt, getting better organized, or cutting out bad habits in 2010) is to come again to the revealing of his love in the light of his Word. You need it. I need it. He gives it. Merry Christmas and Happy Epiphany! Pastor Jon Bergemann
Weekly Devotions are taken from Trinity's“Screenside Chat”, a weekly email devotion and newsletter from Pastor Bergemann designed to give you a spiritual boost from your Savior while keeping you connected to your Trinity family.
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