Merry Christmas!!

[gregg]

php1.15 to18 is how i look at christmas

 

[Miss Hepburn]

php1.15 to18 is how i look at christmas

gregg, if you post your verses as Phil 1:15-18 we can all click onto the link and read immediately the verse ---instead of getting
tomato soup and crackers all over our Bibles. So, I just did it and don't have to mess up my 7 Bibles here.
XXOO Miss Hepburn

 

[gregg]

gregg, if you post your verses as Phil 1:15-18 we can all click onto the link and read immediately the verse ---instead of getting
tomato soup and crackers all over our Bibles. So, I just did it and don't have to mess up my 7 Bibles here.
XXOO Miss Hepburn

i tried it wouldnt obey.

 

[bullfighter]

Ha ha! This is so funny! I just got off the phone with a friend for an hour - all we talked about was how God does not see a difference from a toothless homeless person's heart and a rich person's heart!! Ha.

It is the exquisite moment of a heart that turns to God that He waits for- -He doesn't care if that excited moment comes from a fat person or a thin person.
We also talked about how our personal interest is helping the homeless --aka - druggies under the bridge with mental problems often.

Are you kidding - I am the same exact person as the druggie under the bridge - except they may be closer to thankfulness and gratitude and may accept love from any direction more than me.

tku you again,as i work with many many people under the bridge and love them.i agree we are all the same as lost childern . .i forget what my point was .but i guess the bottom line is xmas can not be white washed by goodie too shoes,it is pagan with pagan intent and who know what it gives to satan.or what it takes away from gods people..

 

[Shelli]

Ha ha! This is so funny! I just got off the phone with a friend for an hour - all we talked about was how God does not see a difference from a toothless homeless person's heart and a rich person's heart!! Ha.

It is the exquisite moment of a heart that turns to God that He waits for- -He doesn't care if that excited moment comes from a fat person or a thin person.
We also talked about how our personal interest is helping the homeless --aka - druggies under the bridge with mental problems often.

Are you kidding - I am the same exact person as the druggie under the bridge - except they may be closer to thankfulness and gratitude and may accept love from any direction more than me.

Yes, it is correct that God does not see a person's physical visage or material circumstances to make a judgemental assessment of them. He just judges them before they are even born, as He did with Prophet Jeremiah, King David, John the Baptiser, Cretians of the first century, and before they had done anything as an adult as He did in Luke 4 with His hometown Jews in the Synagogue.

If you are the "same exact person as the druggie under the bridge" please tell me the name of the bridge you are under. As well, if you are "the same" as them, why have you not invited them into your home every day and every night?

 

[jeffinj]

Merry Christmas to all and may you have an awesome time with God and family.

 

[Shelli]

Merry Christmas to all and may you have an awesome time with God and family.

"Christmas" has nothing to do with God, but has much to do with the "gods" of paganism.

 

[WhiteKnuckle]

Yes, it is correct that God does not see a person's physical visage or material circumstances to make a judgemental assessment of them. He just judges them before they are even born, as He did with Prophet Jeremiah, King David, John the Baptiser, Cretians of the first century, and before they had done anything as an adult as He did in Luke 4 with His hometown Jews in the Synagogue.

If you are the "same exact person as the druggie under the bridge" please tell me the name of the bridge you are under. As well, if you are "the same" as them, why have you not invited them into your home every day and every night?

People on drugs are not the same people off drugs. When you look at an addict (not recovering, or recovered) You are not looking at the essence of who that person is. You're looking at what the substance does and is. While on substances, people are moraly lacking (to put it lightly) and not getting any more virtuous. It would be unwise to invite them into your house while they are in that state. IMHO,,,,

However, to recognize that addicts are suffering and lonely and heartbroken,, you can have sympathy and sorrow along with them. Every junkie, alchy, or tweeker is full of sorrow, and pain and their hearts are shattered by what they're doing.

So, if you recognize that we all suffer and we all ache deep down inside, and we all have a capacity to love in one form or another, you would treat them as you would anyone else. It's not wise to think of yourself higher because you're not an addict, or have never put yourself in that situation. We should all be so blessed. Blessed is the key word here.

Not everyone is blessed with such wisdom or "inner will power" or "inner strength". Many who are suffering with addiction are brought out of it by people who love the Lord and prayed for the Lord to show his infinate mercy. And such as the Lord is just He hears. The Lord will have mercy on whom He has mercy.

So, yes, we're all the same in his eyes. Just as our kids are the same in our eyes. Each with their own attributes, tallents, personalities. He loves even the most foul that you yourself would shun and look down on and spit on and walk by.

Who did God have mercy on? The Tax collector that beat his chest and cried for mercy? Or did the Lord have mercy on the Believer that thanked the Lord for "not making him like that sinner over there"?

 

[jeffinj]

"Christmas" has nothing to do with God, but has much to do with the "gods" of paganism.

That may have been the origin. We can turn that around make it a day to remember and bless God. My everyday belongs to God.