I have grown to dislike this season more with every passing year. When I was a child my poor mother would go into debt every year, not on extravagant presents but just so her children could have something. Maybe that is one of the reasons I dont have a lot of time for it. Maybe it is because every year there is less and less focus on Jesus. Around my house I am known as the grinch because I dont care much for all the present buying, in fact I tell them, with a smile on my face, that if it was up to me I would ban all present buying, but I a deadly serious, I would. My heart is pained at what this season represents to the world. I will be pleasant enough to everyone, but my heart is not in it at all. If I could just sit with a company of saints and sing Oh Holy Night and consider the day, whatever day it was, that the Lord was born and rejoice in that, that would be better than anything. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, it is simply how I feel.
Archive for December 22nd, 2017
Not the biggest fan of Christmas
Posted by appolus on December 22, 2017
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If I be lifted up
Posted by appolus on December 22, 2017
Tozer writes ” God saves a criminal not so he might tell about it once a year for the next 40 years but so that He might become a saint. God takes him out of his bondage that He might lead that person into the promised land. And the farther in the man goes, the less he will have to say about what he used to be. It is not the mark of spirituality when I talk at length about what I used to be.” I could not agree more with what Tozer says.
I have found this to be true in my own life. It is not so much what the Lord delivered me out of, but more so what the Lord delivered me into. He delivered me into a royal priesthood. The focus of my life is not where I came from but where I am now and where I am going. When I speak too much of where I came from I am speaking about myself and the devil. When I speak about who delivered me and what He delivered me into my focus is on Jesus and if He be lifted up, then all men shall be drawn unto Him and glorify Him.
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A Call To The Remnant 