This holiday season will be one I’ll surely never forget. I got to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas in a remote Indian village. Nothing about it looks like home. It’s been over 85 degrees everyday, we ate curry for Thanksgiving instead of turkey, and on Christmas morning I woke up in a tent with no tree and no presents. Honestly, it’s been incredibly challenging. I’ve missed the simple things like a hot shower and my cozy bed. The host family we are staying with is absolutely incredible and treat us like their own children, but that still doesn’t make it any easier.
I’ve slept in 20 different beds over the past 200+ days – and after being on the race fo 7 months now, you start to wonder what even is home? Where is home? But most importantly who is home?
Physically I haven’t been at home, but despite the extreme unfamiliarity and discomfort I have felt at home. Home isn’t a place but a person – Jesus. A song I’ve found so much comfort in over the past months says, “I’ll give thanks to God when I don’t have enough because he’s more than enough.” I’ve truly had all familiarity and comfort stripped from me this month. The only thing that has remained constant is Christ. He’s shown me He’s enough – MORE than enough.
I’ve heard the Christmas story a 100 times – but at our 3am candle light Christmas service, it hit me in a new way. God sent his one and only son into the world in a lowly state, as a baby, born to a virgin, in a manger. He sent his son fully knowing that his one purpose wasn’t just to be born but to brutally die and then rise again and defeat death.
What a savior we have.
When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Matthew 2:11-12
I have chills just thinking about what it would have been like to be those 3 wise men in the presence of our king as a baby. There is no child on this earth that would cause us to fall on our face and worship Him other than our savior. It’s because he’s ENOUGH.
Being at home with our families during the holidays is a gift that should be cherished. But being at home with our savior [the KING of the world] is even more cherishable. If you can’t seem to find your enough – Christ is more than enough for all of us.
Merry Christmas from this special world race family of mine to yours.
