Healing at Christmas

“Goodwill to all humanity…”

We’ve done a lot to promote healing in this holiday season.  We’ve brought joy and smiles to members of our church community who can’t come to church with Christmas caroling.  We held a healing service focused around the four prophetic titles of Jesus in Isaiah 9.  Our children will tell the story this Sunday in our Pageant.

And I had my moment tonight during our Cookies, Cocoa, and Crafts party.  I had a fussy youngling on my shoulder, alternately relaxing and crooning tears at the world.  I baptized him not so very long ago.  I was starting to get him to relax (or so my ego would like to believe) when dad came along to take him home.

It has been years since I had a young one on my shoulder, trying to help them (and me) find the gift of sleep.  It was simply a matter of being there, being present, holding them, going through whatever they were going through until they went to sleep.  I had to trust in God that sleep would come, because I doubted.

But the reason it works is because God fulfills my belief, I must simply be there till it happens.  This is the healing power at Christmas.  Mary and Joseph each received visits from God that Jesus would be someone wonderful.  As parents, they had to endure for thirty years until Jesus began his ministry.

Believe that whoever is injured in spirit can heal as surely as a broken arm can be mended, believe God will bring such power as He did at Christmas, and you will see the healing take place.