GOOD
THINGS AHEAD

Topics: Birth of Christ; Christmas; Last Things; Second Coming

Reference: Revelation 22:20

When Pastor David Peterson was preparing a sermon, his little daughter came in and asked, “Daddy, can we play?”

“I’m awfully sorry, sweetheart, but I’m right in the middle of preparing this sermon. In about an hour I can play,” her dad said.

“OK,” she said. “When you’re finished, I will give you a great big hug.”

She went to the door, then did a U-turn and came back to give her dad a bone-breaking hug.

“You said you were going to give me a hug after I finished,” her dad said, teasing.

“I just wanted you to know what you have to look forward to!” the little girl said.

God wants us to know, through this first coming at Christmas, how much we have to look forward to in his great second coming.

—Dale Bruner, “Is Jesus Inclusive or Exclusive?” Theology, News & Notes (October 1999)