We’d like to think that we serve God only and that he is the one and only God, and that we’d never even dream of praying to another God… but its worth thinking about that again… Do you say things like these?

“Blow out your candles… make a wish!”

“Star light, star bright, first star i see tonight. Wish I may, wish I might, grant the wish I wish tonight”

“If you tell someone your wish, it won’t come true.”

“Write and tell Santa what you want”

See, in all these, we communicate the idea that someone or something OTHER than God can grant our wishes. It suggests that there’s some power in the birthday candle, that there’s some power in the star and in the imaginary red-suited man. Sometimes, even as adults, we close our eyes and say, “I wish, I just wish…”

Why don’t we take these to our true and living God? Maybe we don’t trust him? Maybe we don’t think he’s that interested in our wishes? Maybe we know that the thing we’re wishing for is selfish or sinful?

Maybe the next time you’re tempted to “wish”, you should take a second and tell Jesus what you wish for. He is powerful, and what’s more, he wants what’s good for you… even more than you do!

photo credit: Nationaal Archief

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