Sunday, December
11, 2022
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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