King of Glory
By Carrie Moyer Growing up, I was taught to view Christmas as a special opportunity to celebrate and reflect on Christ's birth and His reason for coming to earth. Now that I'm grown, during the Christmas season, I continue to focus my Bible reading and meditation specifically on the prophecies and events pertaining to our Savior's birth. I walked through many valleys this past year, or perhaps it was one great dark valley. Close friends buried children. I grieved the losses of three of my own unborn babies. We said goodbye to a grandmother, an uncle, a dear friend. We comforted and prayed for others as they wept over loved ones. More than ever this past year, I am realizing how desperately I need Christ, how crucial was His coming to earth as the God-man, how pertinent our hope that one day He will come again. As I share in His suffering, I am realizing what a sacrifice He made in coming to earth. What love He demonstrated in all that He did for us! Christ, ...