Moment 8: What Jesus Wants for Christmas

There are several ways you can play with an empty cardboard gift wrap tube. Look through it like a telescope, blow into it like a trumpet, or pretend it’s a shepherd’s staff. That’s what one of my friends' two-year daughter was doing as she wandered through our house. She said, “I’m looking for my lost sheep.” I told her about a Nativity in the next room where there was a sheep. She came back carrying it and saying, “I found my lost sheep.”

The Bible tells us that “all of us have wandered away like sheep, each of us has turned to our own way” (Isaiah 53:6 ). God calls that sin, and it keeps us away from Him—ultimately forever. The only hope for a lost sheep is if the shepherd comes looking for him. Jesus is God’s Son come looking for you. His pursuit took Him all the way to a brutal cross where He absorbed all the penalty for all your sin.

He’s come looking for you this Christmas. The Shepherd paid a very high price to bring you Home.