Yep, it’s the Holiday Season and for most, more activity is crammed into already over booked schedules. Not to mention over taxed budget.
The Holidays require of us more than we may have. Gifts exchanged, meeting with friends for lunch or dinner more often than the monthly budget can afford? With last year yet on the charge account(s), the still small voice from within begs for your attention with the message, “some day is today”, you can’t continue to support this/these habits? … Please don’t ask me how I know.
Do I have the answer? I know Who does. Jesus Christ. Meet with Him in your prayer closet. Perhaps you don’t have a dedicated space to physically shut out the noise of the world and/or those pulling at you this and thus, but if you can find a quiet place, a restroom stall on a lunch break if nowhere else, close your eyes and let your heart seek the KING of kings. I like the saying, “Wise men still seek Him”.
In Him you will find a sustainable schedule and/or the strength to face … perhaps family who hurt you in the past, or any number of reason(s) why the relationship is on a, … strictly Holiday or as needed basis?
Perhaps you are on the other end. Invited but not warmly embraced? … Are you the one who invites yet give a chill with your greeting?
In Him, He can help to warm up those chilly embrace(s) or shield from the chill if need be.
You see, we all know the story, half minded grant lip service to “the reason for the season”, but do you really?
How is it playing out today, on your New Year’s resolution list? … Again?
The reason for the season is for a spring holiday, so to speak, and I’m not referring to furry critters with a basket of chocolate and eggs. Before we break into the basket of goodies, we lose out if we skip over the black days of the Cross. Yet without that gruesome event, the brighter day with an empty tomb would not be. So, what does all of that have to do with this Holiday? Everything. Everything was done, “it is finished” (John 19:30 ) We can study this meaning for a lifetime and still not grasp the depth of the Father’s love to have “sent His only begotten Son” (John 3:16).
If you have known me over the years you have heard me say, “Because of Christmas we have Easter, and because of Easter” … [fill in the blank of your need, be it to see a beloved (believer) in eternal life or any other need we may have].
Another such saying or prayer my friends may have heard is a prayer for our LORD to protect/heal your heart from pain. For the Holy Spirit to minister [word picture] like medicine sprayed on a painful burn. Your medicine cabinet is your prayer room.
We cannot be all things to all people. We can’t fix their issues by anything we can say, do, or purchase. We can however go to HIM, the Giver of gifts for whatever we need to get through a day.
We cannot do it in our own strength. (Zechariah 4:6) Why would we want to anyway?
Come to His banquet and partake what you need for each given day. Give yourself the gift HE has provided for you. You personally, this Holiday Season, please don’t miss the most important “gift” of your life. The “gift” of HIS life that you may receive the gift(s) He went to the Cross to make a way to Him.
Spend time with “the reason for the season”. He loves YOU so. (1 John 4:19)
John 19:30 (KJV)
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
John 3:16 (KJV)
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Zechariah 4:6 (KJV)
… Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
1 John 4:19 (KJV)
We love Him, because He first loved us.
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