NextStep Fellowship

The good news of Christmas is for the right now and the not yet: Christ has come, and Christ will come again. We live in the in between- between the manger and the second coming, between promise made and promise fulfilled- but we wait in hope, peace, joy, and love because God is already here with us! And this Sunday we invite you to celebrate the incredible gift of this good news with us! Merry Christmas!

This song is such a beautiful reminder of what God says to us, his children, when we’re at that place of overwhelm and exhaustion from trying to hold or control everything ourselves. There’s a heart cry we can read out of the lyrics that respond to God with a “yes, Father, please hold me.” Rest in that today friends, you don’t have to hold it all- just let Him hold you.

This week God keeps reminding me of His goodness. Not just the good nature of His character, but the way he gives such good things. I know God is good as the Creator and Savior, but I have also experienced God pouring out good things that seem to just be for delight and joy. I sense God telling me this week to remember He desires to give good gifts to His children, to look for evidence of His goodness, and to share about the goodness I have been blessed by. So this week I choose to call out the goodness of God in both the big things and the small, seemingly insignificant, yet utterly delightful things. He is indeed a good, good God!