A Christian Sunday Morning

Christmas Eve Answer To Prayer

I have heard this story in so many forms and love them all. I was just reading in one of my devotionals and was reminded of it. They were telling it with the illustration of the ants in a field with a tractor coming. I had never heard that version before.

The one that I love I usually use at Christmas but thought I would share it now. You see, it was on a Christmas Eve that I really grasped why Jesus came to earth.

Now, there was a man who never went to church. He did not understand it all and just did not want to waste his time. Many times his family had asked him to go with them but he always declined.

This particular time he was sitting in his chair by the fire reading his newspaper when he heard a commotion outside. He got up to look and saw that birds were flying into his window.

He went out and shooed them off but they came right back. He put bits of bread from the window to the garage hoping they would go in there. That did not work.

"If I could just become a bird and lead them to safety."

All of a sudden it dawned on him. Jesus was sent to tell us about God. From then on you could always see him with his family in church.

posted by Mary Ann Chidlow @ 2:50 AM