Satisfied: The Day After Christmas

Hey people! It's L. again. With another fairly short but hopefully sweet post. Praying that God will use it!
I have started actually planning to post things strategically now so I scheduled this one to come out at midnight on the day after Christmas. Cool right?
So here is the post. I have been writing it for like two months.

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Are you satisfied today? I am not wondering about how much food you ate last night... or this morning. I guess I am wondering if you are satisfied with your gifts. Do you think they were, cool enough, expensive enough, thoughtful enough, or just large enough in quantity? I have been thinking about Christmas gifts and how we often complain about not getting what we wanted for Christmas but the first Christmas gift should be plenty for every year. I mean seriously:
WE DON'T HAVE TO GO TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We get to be with God in the place he is preparing for us, because God came!
I guess He didn't have to do it the way He did. He could have just shot down from heaven as a full grown man and had the soldiers randomly decide to crucify Him, then risen from the dead, explained, and gone back to heaven or figured out some other way to get it over with. But He didn't! He came as a baby, grew up in the middle of the hardship his people suffered, was tempted, )probably pushed harder than most of us) built personal relationships with sinful people, argued about theology with religious leaders: Basically He was a human who had human problems and handled each of them perfectly. Then after living with the effects of sin we live with He took God's judgement for sin so that we would never have to go through it.
 
 What do you think? Do you feel satisfied with the original Christmas gift or do you want 'more'? I don't just mean Christmas gifts this time. Do you think other humans can give you something you need that God can't really give? Sometimes I do. That is why I wrote this song. Because I wanted a human to help me through the hard times but God was right there knowing that He is the comforter, protector, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, and Everlasting Father I need.
One more thought: A few months ago I was at Choir, and we read Hosea 2 (Not appropriate for all readers but it is in the Bible so it has a really good message) We talked about how we try to find what we need apart from God, we often think that others should give us what we need but really it all comes from God. He wants us to be near Him because He loves us like crazy! As you know if you have been reading my recent posts I am realizing how preposterously beautiful that is.
One way He showed us that crazy love was by coming as a Baby, another thing I don't understand (and a great tie in to Christmas) but hey, God can do anything so why couldn't He be a practically helpless baby in a stable and running the universe at the same time?
So not to be pushy but we should all be grateful this Christmas no matter what happens! Because Gods grace is a bigger deal than your problems... or lack of things to be happy about. Oh and if you want something to do, check out the Christmas Story in Luke 1 It is pretty awesome and this is a link so you can read it right now without even getting off the computer or using a search engine! If you want to know more about the gospel check out this post called: I am nothing.
God loves you!!!!!! Don't ever forget that please!!!
Praying for you!
L.