“Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose, and we have come to worship him.” (Matthew 2:2 NLT)
Well it's Christmas morning here in Australia…our kids were up at 6am opening gifts and laughing and squealing with delight…it's such a privilege to give and watch the the ones you love filled with happiness. When the Wise Men came to see newborn king, note they didn't come empty-handed! The gifts they brought along were estimated, in today's value, to be the millions! Yup MILLIONS! They were enacting and responding with a spiritual principal BEFORE Jesus had done anything. They were treating Him out of His potential and not out of His actual because, lets face it, He was still only moments old! Today you are going to interact with people who haven't reached their full potential…in fact some may be far from it BUT the challenge lies in treating them the way the wise men treated Jesus and the way that God has treated us…as if we are worth a millions bucks…before we are worth it! When you treat someone as if they are when they are not yet, you pull out the potential within them. You draw out the compassion, the kindness, the goodness, the capacity and the fullness of who God has created them to be…and that's the greatest gift anyone would could give! This Christmas make sure you treat the people you cross paths with out of their God-potential and watch as it transforms them…and you! God bless friends…we love you