{"id":682,"date":"2020-12-22T00:58:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2020-12-21T21:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:07:10","slug":"682-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/682-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent \u2013 The Little Drummer Boy \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, December 22<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advent \u2013 The Little Drummer Boy \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.\u201d Luke 2:7 Romans <\/strong><\/p>\n

Christmas song for today is The Little Drummer Boy<\/p>\n

Come they told me, Pa rum pa pum pum<\/em><\/p>\n

A newborn King to see, Pa rum pa pum pum<\/em><\/p>\n

To lay before the king<\/em><\/p>\n

Pa rum pum pum pum,<\/em><\/p>\n

Rum pum pum pum,<\/em><\/p>\n

Rum pum pum pum<\/em><\/p>\n

So to honor him<\/em><\/p>\n

Pa rum pum pum pum<\/em><\/p>\n

When we come<\/em><\/p>\n

Others were carrying beautiful boxes filled with precious gifts for the newborn King but he only had a drum.<\/p>\n

The Little Drummer Boy had nothing but his drum which suddenly seemed an inappropriate instrument to play for a King, not to mention a newborn baby king. If only he had a more soothing instrument, like the harp.<\/p>\n

Imagine him standing before the King heart beating so fast it\u2019s deafening and then Mary nods signaling him it\u2019s okay. The King\u2019s mother nodded at him. She actually wanted him to play. He raised his sticks and began to beat out of the first pattern that came into his head, the rhythm of his beating heart.<\/p>\n

And so the Little Drummer Boy gave his heart to God. He played his best. He gave his best with what he had, nothing more and nothing less.<\/p>\n

How often do we feel our gifts are not good enough? We compare ourselves to others, wondering why their gifts seem so much more \u201cuseful\u201d for the kingdom. We want to teach like our Pastor, or sing like the Worship Leader. Or maybe we want to share our blessings, but at times, we don\u2019t feel very blessed. Because we don\u2019t see the abundance we think of it las less. We can\u2019t give what we don\u2019t have, but rather than lamenting our lack, we need to look for our \u201cdrum\u201d, the one thing that only we can give and give it with every strength that is within you.<\/p>\n

The truth is God already has teaching like the Pastor\u2019s. He already has singing like the worship leader. And what He wants, what He can really use, is your heart. Today think of ways that you can be used this Christmas season. You don\u2019t have to spend money. You just have to give of yourself, of your heart. Just like the little Drummer Boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, December 22 Advent \u2013 The Little Drummer Boy \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.\u201d Luke 2:7 Romans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}