By Michaela Gordoni
This Christmas, singer Matthew West is encouraging everyone to be compassionate.
“When I was a kid, my dad would get my brothers and me, and after a heavy snowfall, he knew of members of our church, like an elderly lady who couldn’t shovel their own walkway… and so we would go out late at night… and we would secretly shovel the driveway or the sidewalk and that person would wake up the next day and they would see that we had done a good deed,” the “More” singer explained in a social media video this week. “And they didn’t know who did it because the angels of the night had struck again.”
His dad would find ways to make it fun for West and his brothers. But the best thing was knowing that they were blessing someone and honoring God by through their service.
“In the book of Matthew chapter 16, Jesus reminds us to take up our cross and follow him and so I just want to remind you this Christmas, that God has called us to be compassionate,” West said. “He shared the ultimate gift of compassion by sending his only son, Jesus, for us. So find a way to be an angel of the night.”
He urged listeners to do their act in secret, as Jesus commands.
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West speaks more about his experience with compassion in his book, “Come Home for Christmas,” which is also the name of one of his songs.
Some of the lyrics of “Come Home for Christmas” are:
How long has it been
Since you felt that feeling of wonder
Like a child wide awake
Counting down on Christmas eve
We’re in such a hurry for life to begin
Do you ever just wish you could go back again
What if I told you the young and the old youAre not quite as far apart as you might think
Come home, come home, come home
Come home for Christmas
West is currently on his “Come Home for Christmas” tour, until Dec. 20.
In West’s book, he shows how Christmas reminds us what it means to be loved by God.
West wrote, “My hope for ‘Come Home For Christmas’ is that it would help you enter the Christmas season with the intention of turning your heart to God. Sometimes we can get caught up in the busyness of the holiday season that we miss the kingdom realities God invites each of us to participate in through the birth of Jesus.”
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