Carols Devotional: “O Holy Night, What Is Your Holy Night?”

What is your Holy Night?

Matthew 14:22-33

I love the story of Jesus walking on water, actually, I love the story of Peter walking on water. After Jesus identified himself as the “ghost” walking on water Peter saw the opportunity to put Jesus to the test and asked for the ability to walk on water himself and Jesus granted it. Yes, he then starts drowning but he is the only person besides Jesus that has ever walked on water, even if it’s just a few steps. When they get back in the boat the bible says that they worshiped him, saying “Truly you are the Son of God.” I don’t know about you but if God tells me to walk on water, and I am courageous enough to try it and I succeed my response would be the same, “Truly you are the Son of God.”

What is your God moment? What moment in your life can you look back and say “there has to be a God because I witnessed this” I have to frequently ask myself that question, my brain is constantly asking questions and challenging my status quo. Being a very rational person my faith gets tested (by my brain) constantly. My brain challenges the Bible, my church, my pastors, my leaders, Christianity, my faith, my believes, but every time I feel my brain is winning I pull out the big guns, I bring the only thing my brain can’t refute: my testimony. My brain can’t deny what I have witness God do in my life and in the lives of those around me. Although it tries to reason my experiences, it always reaches the same conclusion, God is real, Jesus died for me, I am forgiven, and the Holy Spirit lives inside of me.
What is your Holy Night? What moment in your life can you go back to in moments of fear, doubt, stress, anger, discouragement, and say my God is real and he loves me, and this is how I know!

Camilo Quevedo