Holiday Blues

As we grow old, many of us decide to live families behind, you know like we ought to do ….“a man shall leave HIS father and mother and be joined to HIS wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24 

Then right there were the Lord had placed us IS, at that time, where we ought to be. And this happens in multiple seasons thru our lives not only right after we get married only but.

The problem comes when we refuse to be planted were He had placed us; planted in the new home with our husband our of the town where we were raised; in the new school you’ve been transferred to, the new job you just started, the new church your husband decided to take the family to, etc, etc, etc.

The problem becomes even greater because as we refuse to be planted there, the next step would be getting to know our surroundings and with then it will mean that most likely will refuse too, to mingle with this “new family”, that we’ve got into, the new neighborhood, classmates, church family, and others. And when THE LORD placed us somewhere we have to realize HE has a purpose, and it will be good for us! Psalm 92:12 “The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,
He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.” This new season in the new place that we are in, will give us new experiences, new friends, new tools for future paths is life. And the people that we meet here can become our support for the journey in the new place, and sometimes for future journeys too.

If even JESUS (the unblemished lamb) wanted and called HIS closest disciples with Him, to support Him with their presence and their prayers, don’t you think us, an earthly human being created BY HIM, should follow what HE did?    

All of us need such an inner circle.  We are meant to live in relation to others, not in isolation.

When JESUS said “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.” Mark 14:34 Jesus was confessing that HE was in extreme spiritual anguish, and it could have affected HIS mental, emotional and physical condition as well. 

Come on, if that could possibly happen to the son of God, how much more to us? Have you ever felt that way?

Man wasn’t created to be alone.  Isolation is a terrible thing; defined by the dictionary as the process of separating somebody or something from others, or the fact of being alone and separated from others or the condition of being cut off from others, or from other places is what best defines Isolation; it’s also loneliness and segregation.  Segregation? Isn’t that what we’ve been trying to avoid since the emancipation took place? Hum!!!!

When you isolate you tend to think too much because of the fact that you’re “alone”; when the isolation includes a TV, the thoughts can be even worst depending on what you’re watching at that time, so beware and try to AVOID ISOLATION.

Jesus wasn’t joking when He said: “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”        Mark 14:38

THIS is exactly why we need people of God surrounding us; prayer support.

The mind is called the battlefield because in the mind is were evil thoughts are propel or stopped.  Your mind and your heart are correlated that’s why the Lord makes sure it’s mention in the first commandment in Mark 12: 29-31: “‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. ³⁰ And you shall love THE LORD your GOD with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your MIND, and with all your strength.”

This correlation is found in many Scriptures in the Old & New Testament, among those:

·         Jeremiah 17:10 - “I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind,”
·         Hebrews 8:10 - “I (says the LORD) will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
·         Revelation 2:23 - “…and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts.”  
·         Matthew 12:34 – “For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.”

When you choose to isolate yourself from your church family and/or the world, guess what? You are doing the same thing your kids do when they choose not to follow your ways… they’re disobeying. Ooooooooooooops!

Even in the little kids are taught in school, to follow the rules, in church they are taught about following the laws of the Bible, of their house, and of the land they lived in.  Everyone knows that we have to obey the law.  We can’t afford to disobey, God is coming soon!

James 4:8, give us the solution in relation to this isolation and disobedience problem, “Draw near to GOD and HE will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts…”

Get out and share the time God still has for you to live, and bless other with your presence, your love, your resources.  Get involved in your community activities, with your neighborhood, friends; and if you do not have a church family, look around, and check your neighborhood church, and go!  And, IF you need me to suggest you one, let me know! And have yourself a MERRY CHRISTMAS time, for the glory of God.