Dear Friends,
This is the season of anticipation. Everyone is looking forward to celebrating Christ’s birth with family and presents. But Christ’s birth has given us something even more wonderful to look forward to as today’s devotional shows. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• II Corinthians 5:8 (ESV)

  Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

I’LL FLY AWAY

“Some glad morning when this life is o’er,

I’ll fly away;

To a home on God’s celestial shore,

I’ll fly away.

When the shadows of this life have gone,

I’ll fly away;

Like a bird from prison bars has flown,

I’ll fly away.

Just a few more weary days and then,

I’ll fly away;

To a land where joys shall never end,

I’ll fly away.

I’ll fly away, O glory,

I’ll fly away:

When I die, hallelujah, by and by,

I’ll fly away.”

[Albert E. Brumley]