Ex. 13: 10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his
season from year to year.
Did you ever notice how people prepare for Christmas? Year
after year they get their houses ready, fill it with lights, trim the tree,
rejoice on Christmas morn that the Savior was born? Oh, let’s not forget the
gifts; the payoff of the holiday season, right?
Did you ever notice that the only planning to get ready for
Easter Sunday is the dying of eggs, the purchase of a new Sunday dress and
shoes, the preparing of a meal, or the getting ready to visit church and
family? Or maybe even a basket full of candy will dress your table.
Why is this? Has society so saturated us with materials that
we fail to see the spiritual value of these two most religious Holy Days? Let’s
not forget the political correctness of these days either. We don’t see commercials
fill our airwaves with Hanukkah presents or celebrations; we don’t see Kwanzaa
as a celebrated Holy Day, so why are we fed all the commercialism of Christmas
and Easter? Why is man SO offended by Christ?
Please, don’t blame Obama on this one. Since man dictated to
us that on December 25th we’d celebrate it as Jesus’ BIRTH has man
fought against the entire Christ movement. On Christmas day we’d light trees,
give gifts, spend time with family, drink and be merry; thus MERRY Christmas?
We have been nourished by commercialism, materialism and
have been driven away from the entire Spiritual movement that these two
extraordinary events were meant to be. Whenever someone approaches us and says
they are spirit-filled, we move away from them as if they just stepped in
manure, distancing ourselves from the odor. Why do you think that is? Nobody
wants the aroma clinging to him or her all day, so they move away from it in
hopes that it isn’t a contagious disease.
Imagine that, thinking the spirit, the Holy Spirit no less,
is a contagious smelly disease. That is what man and man alone, not just ONE
man, has done. Through all this wrongful thinking, man is destroying the
spirit.
Have you heard the old saying, ‘You are what you think’?
I’ve heard it put in many different colorful connotations but all in all, they
mean the same thing. Action causes a Reaction. Man has MOVED (action) to
eliminate any spiritual drive from us causing a REACTION, a spirit-less
society.
I have many Native American friends who understand the
spirit and the Forefathers before them strive to keep the Spirit alive. But
many will tell you, that as we move into a new frontier, many natives are
losing sight of the Spirit.
The spirit is not some imaginary thing, it is real and it is
a force of all things in nature. The Holy Spirit is what is within you driving
the vehicle you call a body. Think of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit as the
fuel in your system, in Earth’s system, in every living and breathing creatures
system! When we take the Spirit out of this world, we are then taking LIFE out
of this world.
Even if you don’t believe in God, say you’re an atheist, the
spirit, or driving force, is STILL in there, you’re just lower on fuel than
many.
The Spiritual Season is upon us and as many nourish their
souls with commercialism and materialism, know that the spirit is still moving
in you and would love to connect and bring back to the world the fullness of
His intention from the beginning.
It is by universal thought that we created this dissolution.
Before you blame ONE man for this earthly demise, look to the man that YOU are
and what part YOU feed and in turn feed to your environment. Because in truth,
WE become what WE think.
2 comments:
As has been said before, it doesn't matter if YOU don't believe in God ... He believes in YOU! Nourish the Spirit or it will wither and die.
Isn't that what I basically said?
"When we take the Spirit out of this world, we are then taking LIFE out of this world."
Meaning, if it is not nourished, you lose life.
Same thing but in MY words. :)
I hope you're enjoying my Lenten series. A lot of nourishment in my words. ;)
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