What will we do after Christmas?

You probably know that many people experience extreme depression after the holidays. After the decorations are removed, all the people go home, and we all go back to work many people feel they have nothing to look forward to. The result can be a mild depression or much worse.

What should we do after Christmas?

First, we should look for ways to serve God. With all of the pressure on Mary and Joseph before the birth of Christ, the work really began after Christmas. After Christmas, God warned Joseph in a dream to take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt. Later, prompted by God again in a dream, Joseph led his family back to Nazareth to fulfill God’s purpose.

We are also called to fulfill God’s purpose. People still need to know the Lord. People who feel hopeless still need a friend and an encourager. We still need to live for God in our world.

After Christmas there is much work to do.

Second, we should ask what God is doing in His world. While God worked in the birth of His Son, the real revelation came as Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man (Luke 2:52).

People who are raising little children rarely get anytime off. They constantly have to be “on duty.” It’s hard work–and very rewarding.

Joseph and Mary had their greatest work to do after the birth of the Son of God.

What we do after Christmas will make all the difference.

Finally, we should look to the culmination of our work on earth. God’s word at the ascension of Jesus is very instructive. The angels asked the probing question: ” ‘Men of Galilee,’ they said, ‘why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven'” (Acts 1: 11).

The implication of the angels’ message indicated the disciples were to go about the work of God constantly looking to the culmination of their work at the return of the Lord.

God has called us to serve Him and work while it is day. For the day is coming when our work will be done.

Let us be faithful to serve God until Jesus returns.

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