Thursday,
December 12, 2019
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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