Celebrate Jesus' today and each day. Celebrate His going and His coming back also

Zechariah 8:13c (NLT) Now I will rescue you and make you BOTH a symbol and a SOURCE of blessing. So do not be afraid . Be strong and get on with building the Temple!

The word now gives reference to what had been. In previous verses the object of this verse (Judah and Jerusalem),  had become symbols of a cursed nation. But NOW. ......you get double for your trouble. You do not sacrifice being a symbol you do a 180 degree change. This is akin to Job who with a prayer for his "friends" prophesied in chapter 42 went from appearing to be cursed to being a symbol of being blessed. (kids, family,cattle, goats, Camels,ect). Family returned. There was a celebration, after repentance.
 This  change is good going from appearing to be cursed and needing to be hunted and killed on the street not far from your home to appearing to be blessed. You go from being someone who is not wanted "because you are down and out",  as Harry the Hippie , scandalized in the newspaper  to "My Girl" in the eyes of God or the girl sung about in "Since I Lost My Baby". Wake up on this Christmas day of 2014 entering 2015 as the Mighty Black nation that you have been and are.

 In addition to "appearing" to becoming an icon of someone who is a blessing having fame and fortune, you give out good advice and actually BECOME  a source of the blessing.like Steve Harvey here lately, driving off in a Bentley. You become a source instead of a co-dependent like the woman at the well in John 4 who had many husbands who was looking for the source in. You plant seeds of jobs, and capital, Word of God, with education like some of the great educators you have been exposed to out and in the church.  You cease to be a consuming nation and become a producing nation. I ask you to WAKE UP you mighty Black nation!. Become a source. You were the source in slavery appearing to be cursed. How could cotton be made a $3 billion a year crop without you before the cotton gin was produced? Yes surprise I got that in.

 You can later give to your have not white brothers the WORD and material also having more to spare.You become a source because you are the source like Jesus, who appeared to be cursed on the cross, but who by Grace of God became the gift, as we celebrate this day. He became the source making His Father happy by making His Father in Heaven our Father in Heaven(John 17). He made us family where previously we were kicked out of the garden, getting the world cursed.  God stated (Luke 3:22 "thou art my beloved Son: IN THEE I AM WELL PLEASED" . Jesus bridged the gap generated centuries ago by Adam in yielding to Eve's voice. Pray to God to reverse the curse for you and for all people not having this Word and dying for lack of WIsdom. It will catch on like a brushfire. It is TIME now.

So get out of that pity-party room. Get in the Word. Put down the downers and uppers. Put down that excessive alcohol. PUT DOWN ANYTHING THAT BURNS. Hook up with the Source. Please ! You have time, I don't care what they say. I know you are numb from having two many blessings in things flesh and material to cathex (not really love)

 Share this encouragement with all you see especially the pan-handler on the street. Cook some bacon  or chicken and eggs and biscuits and give them away on the streets. When you do you will appear to be blessed and become the source of a blessing as you do what the ONLY REAL SOURCE would do.......Jesus. As you do you will build your relationship with Him. This is akin to rebuilding of the Temple. You rebuild the relationship fractured by sin. He never left you!

Celebrate His coming into the world today and do it at least on each 25th, That way you will hit the correct month in spite of the naysayers. Don't stop with celebrating birth which the Koran and Bible agree was by a Virgin,. Continue to serve with obedience by asking for the Source of strength and motivation  in the Holy Spirit. Celebrate the death of your sin on the cross as well as the resurrection, the ascension, and HIS COMING BACK SOON. Will you be ready? This world as we know it is on its way out. You can get on the mother ship as depicted by Bootsy Collins I believe or the Matrix or in the Word which is truth. Then we will fly away with Jesus.