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On The
Journey...
December 22, 2007
Buyer’s remorse.
Something catches your attention—some object or piece of clothing—I
don’t know what it is, but it catches your eye. You read up on it.
You go look at it. You save your money. You think this is going to
be the greatest experience of your life if you can only acquire this
particular thing.
You buy it, and then you get it home and you use it or you wear it
or you drive it. You have that gnawing sense of dissatisfaction in
your spirit and you think, “Oh, why did I go and do that? Why did I
put all that money into it? This isn’t giving me the payoff that I
thought it would.” Buyer’s remorse - quite a common phenomenon. I
wonder how many of you have ever experienced this.
I bring it up because there’s another common phenomenon which seems
to affect people this time of year - Christmas remorse.
And here’s how it comes out. Someone will say, “Bob, I had such high
hopes going into this Christmas season. I wanted this to be the most
spiritually tuned-in Christmas ever. I wanted it to be filled with
worship and wonder at our great God and the sending of his Son. I
wanted there to be some wonderful family times that wouldn’t be
rushed, and that we could be together and really celebrate
Christmas.”
“I wanted to touch certain friends that don’t get touched during the
year. I wanted to give myself to others out of a heart that was
overflowing with a love for God. I had such good intentions coming
into this Christmas season.”
And I say, “And…” And they say, “Well, you know how it goes. Here I
am now, exhausted, emotionally numb, bruised relationships with
family, a lot of friends I never got to touch. I didn’t help
anyone.” And then they say, “And the worse thing of all, I’m further
away from God now than when I entered the Christmas season. The
whole thing was a bust.”
So I’ve been thinking, what would happen if today you made a advance
decision that you were going to get this Christmas right - that you
would make some really good decisions about loving God and loving
others so that when you get to the other side of December you can
look back with great satisfaction and say, “There was a Christmas
season I got right.”
So here is the challenge:
First - take some time to read the Christmas
story in Luke, chapter 2. (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%202&version=31)
Second – join us
tomorrow, Sunday, December 23rd at 9:00 am and help us
deliver over 100 toys to children that would otherwise have
nothing. This one simple act will change your heart forever. We
are meeting at 2144 Whatley Road in Hamilton and then will go out
from there.
Third – come to Christmas Eve service, Monday,
December 24th at 7:00 pm at The Clubhouse at Princeton
Horizons – 1200 Bradley Court Princeton. Directions to both events
are on our website at
www.Journey2L2.org.
Fourth – remember
what an unbelievable God we have that would give us the gift of His
own son and remember that THIS is the reason we celebrate
Christmas.
Let’s get this
Christmas right.
Merry Christmas!
Bob |
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