Walking with Jesus at home

I don't know about you, but going home at Christmas brings up a mixed set of emotions. On the one hand i am excited about seeing my family and friends, eating great food and enjoying the break, but on the other I'm slightly nervous about what has historically happened to my walk with Jesus when i return to the home of my adolescence.

Our home towns, for many of us, symbolise a period in our lives of immense joy and pain: our first loves, first car, first break-up, and our first job.  They are also places that remind us of family tensions, difficult memories, sinful habits, and a time without much room for God.  Sometimes when we go home it’s as if without the routine and familiarity of normal life in Leeds we struggle to remember and live in the fruit of what God has done in us over the past year and is doing in us right now - we can easily slip into the ‘old me’ and forget who God has made us to be right now.

I know it’s not easy to be who you really are at home, i’m the first one to admit previous years of struggle, but God has made you to be who you are, not who you were.  He is about a great work in you and me, and no matter what happens this Christmas, the good and the bad, He is for you and will never leave you. 

Practically, why not join with me in staying in contact with your disciplers and accountability partners over Christmas to help each other pursue God, receive His grace and enjoy being you!

I hope you have an awesome God inspired Christmas