\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was listening to the classic Christmas song, “The Little Drummer Boy”\u00a0\u00a0today on the radio.\u00a0 I had always thought of it as a nice song, an easy tune for kids to sing in Christmas plays.\u00a0 But as I listened to it this morning, I heard it in a completely different way.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One of the lines in the song says, “I played my drum for Him.\u00a0 I played my best for Him.”\u00a0 The little drummer boy was bringing his all\u00a0for the newborn King.\u00a0 Was it gold or anything of value?\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 I picture him playing a beginner’s sequence of beats; nothing fancy or complicated.\u00a0 And yet, it was his best<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It made me think about what I bring to Jesus.\u00a0 Do I bring my very best to the Lord each day?\u00a0 Do I give everything I have to Him, even though I may not have anything worthy of bringing to\u00a0the King of kings?\u00a0 God gives each of us unique talents, and I think He is greatly pleased to have us give those back to Him.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I want to challenge myself to come to Jesus as a child and offer Him my best of all that He has entrusted to me.\u00a0 Let’s play our drums for Him this Christmas season!<\/p>\n “And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.”\u00a0 Luke 2:12, KJV<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a92010 Tammy Maseberg All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was listening to the classic Christmas song, “The Little Drummer Boy”\u00a0\u00a0today on the radio.\u00a0 I had always thought of it as a nice song, an easy tune for kids to sing in Christmas plays.\u00a0 But as I listened to it this morning, I heard it in a completely different way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-from-tammy-maseberg","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}