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Where can I find God?
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Christmas is a time for searching. People go from one store to another in search
of one specific gift. When they finally find that special present, they feel a
sense of relief and accomplishment.
What are you looking for this Christmas season? Many of us spend a lot of time
looking but not finding. We look for peace in our lives but the strains of work and
stresses of our relationships bring tension and turmoil. We look for understanding
about why our lives have taken the direction they have only to be left pondering and
wondering. We look for happiness but find only sorrow. We ask the question, "What's
life all about?" We wonder, "What have I accomplished?" We are left searching for
answers.
All life's questions really boil down to one. Those who have found the answer to this
question also have the answers to the question of peace, understanding, and happiness.
This question may be asked more at this time of year than at any other. If your life
needs meaning, peace, understanding, and happiness, then you need to first ask the big
question: "Where can I find God?"
Long ago some ordinary blue collar workers-some shepherds-were presented with the
answer. These shepherds were told that the world's Savior was born in the small town
of Bethlehem. Was it true? They went to investigate. And they found God!
"When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another,
"Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us
about." So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the
manger" (Luke 2:15-16).
Where can we find God? God's Word takes us back to Bethlehem where we join the
shepherds in beholding the Son of God who took on our human nature and was born into the
world. He came to seek and save all of us who had lost our connection with God. He came
to give us the answer for finding God. We find God through him, because he is the Savior
who has opened the way to life with God.
No more searching. Jesus is the answer for finding God.