Cost Cutting Measures

Today was the Christmas party at work. Not many people were there anyway, but people did bring lots of food. Just before lunch I was asked to the office and was told that due to cost cutting measures I was being let go. That's right - laid off.

So now I am wondering what God has planned for me. I have a real peace about this though. I believe God is in control and has plans for me which are for good and not for evil - plans for a future and a hope. I know that in Christ I am more than a conqueror, and that I am a royal heir of the Creator of the universe. The glass is way more than half full for me! Not only is the future part of God's plan for me, but so is what happened today - getting laid off.

So on this Christmas Eve Eve, let's focus on the Christ, the Son of the living God. I thought of a new aspect of the Christmas story that relates to my day. I was thinking about how excited Mary must have been to be the "chosen" mother of Jesus, but what kind of face did she make and what did she say when Joseph told her they would have to go to Bethlehem when she was nine months pregnant? It was something totally unexpected that probably wasn't anywhere on her radar. But it was part of God's plan. And how did she feel when she laid her newborn baby in a feeding trough? I bet she felt sad at not being able to lay him in the bed Joseph had been working on. But it was part of God's bigger plan. Am I worried? Not now. And I'll try to not worry a month from now either. What happened today, as well as all that God has planned for my tomorrows, is part of God's good plan for me.


Merry Christmas,
Johnie