Today, we bring you a message from Pastor Steven Furtick titled, “When Reality Isn’t What Was Expected.”
Most of us have an idea of how we want Christmas to be—not just this year, but every day of our lives.What do we do when the ideal collides with reality and what we imagine Christmas to be like?
We have downplayed the drama of what really happened to create the first Christmas to the extent that we are disappointed in ourselves that we can’t create or have a perfect Christmas because our lives are not good.
The solution to the chaos is really simple: embrace it. We should not believe that chaos should be a lifestyle, but in certain seasons of your life chaos is inevitable, and we should embrace those seasons. In order to embrace the chaos, we always need context.
The enemy can always divorce us from our destiny if he can get us out of context. We should keep Christmas in context. Let’s remember that Herod was trying to kill all the baby boys under the age of 2 at the time when Jesus was born. We should read about the lineage of Jesus because that will give us the context of Christmas. Jesus came through a lineage of murderers, fugitives, liars, and backstabbers, so before you look down your nose this Christmas on people who don’t have their act together, you better remember the context of Christmas: that Christ came into the world through sinners. Context is everything; it is so helpful for determining why someone is committed.
If you meet someone who is committed to their job, their calling, or their ideals, the most successful people have a little back story; they went through a season that was difficult.
Watch and learn from this sermon by Pastor Steven Furtick: When Reality Isn’t What Expected” as we bring the latest messages from Pastors around the globe to you.
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