Rudolph, A Christmas Message

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen., But do you recall? The most famous reindeer of all?

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose.

And if you ever saw it, You would even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names;

They never let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer games.

 
"Then" one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say,

Rudolph with your nose so bright, Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?

"Then" how the reindeer loved him

As they shouted out with glee, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,

We live in a world that rewards and elevates people based on what can be seen or in some cases “not seen” on the outside.

On a recent television program, I listened as a mother, a very beautiful and glamorous one, spoke to her daughter and said something like this. “We have to work hard to look as beautiful as we can, after all it's the part of us that matters the most; it's much more important than what's on the inside.” Now it was meant to be humorous in it's context but it really made a statement about human wisdom and the reality of modern life in America didn't it?

Now old Rudolph had an aberration. He had a great big red shiny nose. All His life the other reindeer, the “perfect ones” made fun of him. They wouldn't let him join in any of their “games.”

Can you relate to this scenario? Do you know someone who can. Isn't this the reason so many children are bullied at school. Many are overlooked because they have what the “perfect ones” call an aberration.

But as we are told in Psalms 139, “We are all fearfully and wonderfully made!”

The truth is God designed each one of us for something only we are equipped to do. The secret to life is to discover what it is you and I were designed for.

An example, a Lamborghini is a rocket ship on the road, but it doesn't make a very good boat does it?
Or, put a fish on land; it is helpless, put it back in the water and it's genius becomes apparent, doesn't it?

Now, when just the right time and circumstances came and Old Santa realized it was too foggy to drive his sleigh, then Rudolph's unique design became apparent to all!

Then, ah yes, then, How all the other reindeer, (the perfect ones), loved him. (I love it when “Then” comes don't you?)

As a very wise man said to me one time, “Be careful who you slight on the “way up,” you might meet them again on the “way down.”    "The Lord gives and He takes away."

Merry Christmas!

Jesus Loves You!