BELIEVE

As we are out shopping during this wonderful season, we WILL see the word, "BELIEVE." It will of course be referring to "Santa," but may I remind us that the REAL St. Nickolas was a LOVER OF JESUS; The ONE who is the TRUE source and object of our belief. Whenever we see this wonderful word may we hear HIS WORDS whispered in our ears:     "He (Jesus) said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to BELIEVE all the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter glory?" Luke 24:25   "To all who received him, to those who BELIEVED in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." John 1:12   "FOr God SO LOVED THE WORLD that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever BELIEVES in HIM shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever BELIEVES in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not BELIEVED in the name of God's one and only Son. "John 3:16-18   "Whoever BELIEVES in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life for God's wrath remains on him." John 3:36   "Many of the Samaritans from that town BELIEVED in him because of the woman's testimony." He told me EVERYTHING I EVER DID." So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became BELIEVERS. They said to the woman, "We no longer BELIEVE just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves and we KNOW THAT THIS MAN REALLY IS THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD." John 4:39-42   "The work of God is this: to BELIEVE in the one he has sent." John 6:29   ""FOr my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and BELIEVES in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:40   "Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who BELIEVES in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and BELIEVES in me will never die. Do YOU BELIEVE THIS?"  Yes, Lord," she told him, "I BELIEVE that YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, WHO WAS TO COME INTO THE WORLD." John 11:25-27   This season truly is about BELIEF. Not Belief in Santa Claus but rather BELIEF IN THE CREATOR OF ST. NICK, belief in the ONE who Christmas is ALL ABOUT'; Belief in the One who will very soon be sending a blanket of snow to remind us   "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." Isaiah 1:18   Blessings from Bombadil. May we not be like EVE who BELIEVED the LIE and was BELIED (see all those words in the word "believe?"  May we BELIEVE the TRUTH...JESUS CHRIST. "I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, so that through my being with you again your joy in Christ Jesus will overflow on account of me." Phillipians 1:25 & 26