Thursday,
December 13, 2018
CHRISTMAS
IN THE HEART!
Eph 4:31-32
31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be
put away from you, with all malice:
32
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as
God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
It
was a cold and dour Christmastide in the counting house of ole Scrooge
and Marley. Ebenezer hunched over his books making marks with an unsharpened
quill. Bob stood at his upright desk too cold to work and too frightened to
move. At home, what little Bob had was warm and welcoming. At home, the much
that Ebenezer had was wrapped in dust and disappointment. So Christmas came to
both. But each celebrated it, or didn’t celebrate it, according to his own
heart.
Does it not seem that the world
is divided into those two characters? The one surrounded by unnoticed blessings
and the other pinched by unnoticed want move through life in opposite
directions. One seems destined for perpetual misery and the other singing like
a bird in the rain. The difference is the heart, you see!
The
heart makes all the difference. “The heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) On the other
hand “with the heart man believes unto righteousness.” (Romans 10:10) The heart
colors and flavors all other circumstances. This is most noticeable at
Christmas time.
How
about your heart?
Is it right with God? Make your complaints known to God and cry out for mercy
for His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting. A broken and contrite heart
He will not ignore. Let God change your heart. When that happens everything
else will become new.
Ps 51:7-8
7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than
snow.
8
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may
rejoice.
Dear
God, don’t let my heart ruin Christmas for me and those around me. Change my
heart, O God. Let me see the beauty that has been hidden from my eyes. AMEN
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