December 29 Follow-up To The Advent Study #4
We have just posted today's follow-up to the Christmas Advent Study series. Now is an excellent opportunity to continue the spiritual discipline of daily Bible reading, study and worship as a family. Just follow the link below to access this in our blog. I pray it is a blessing. Lessons To Be Learned From Scriptural Advent Mediations You have been meditating not on the mythologies, speculations and traditions of men but rather the holy, eternal, inerrant written Word of God. As a result you may very well have come to view the revelation of God the Holy Spirit concerning the birth of Christ in an entirely new light. Now is a good time for reflection on lessons learned. Each day read the passage, reflect on the devotional thought and then, if doing this as a family, discuss your conclusions. 4. Do not fall into satan’s trap of a joyless Christmas and critical spirit. James 1:19-20 “This you know, my beloved brethren. But let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.” It might be helpful for us to ask ourselves, “What is my response to the loss of the true meaning of Christmas?” Honestly review your month so far. Has your response been, with compassion, to seek to lead others to Christ so they can understand the meaning of Christmas, or has it been to simply gossip and complain among yourselves? I remember vividly the joy of my first Christmas as a new Christian. Let us always remember, non-Christians are not the enemy. Satan is the enemy. Ephesians 6:12 states, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Non-Christians are the enslaved civilian population we have come to liberate. Don’t fall into satan’s trap of becoming a crotchety, gripping scrooge at Christmas time. Satan does not care how much you hate the commercialism of Christmas, in fact he likes you to hate. Satan does not care how angry you become at merchants and shoppers at Christmas time, in fact he wants you to be angry. He doesn’t care how distasteful your office mates and neighbors become to you as they celebrate materialism and partying, in fact he wants all non-Christians to be so distasteful to you that you will have nothing to do with them. Christmas is a wonderful time to tell others about Jesus. To open your home in love to your non-Christian friends, to give New Testaments and Jesus Videos to your business contacts, your merchants, co-workers, friends and neighbors. To bring “good news of great joy which shall be for all people!” (Luke 2:10)
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