What is it that drives you?

What keeps us going in life?  There are so many things that could drag us down and make us just despise life and run away and hide.

What is it that keeps you going through the stuff of life that we all wish would just go away?

It is interesting to think about this for me especially at this time of year as I listen to Did you know? on the album Do you see what I See by Todd Agnew. Because I wonder what did Jesus know and how did he deal with the junk of life.  Did he know from his birth that he was going to the cross?  Did he know all the things that would happen in the beating, the trial and all the tribulation he was going to face, what kept him going?

Todd’s lyrics opens up the meaning of the birth of Christ for me in a way that pulls Easter and Christmas together.  The lyrics ask Did the cross cast a shadow over your cradle?  Did you shudder each time your hammer hit a nail?  Imagine what Jesus went through as a carpenter if he knew about the cross, and the assurance we can take from this is, that He has promised to be with us always.  To never leave us or forsake us, so even in the darkest moments of our life, we have Jesus to get us through.