Christmas music is never out of season.
I think that a lot of us know things inside of our hearts that we're too afraid to act upon.
We're afraid of conviction.
It's just too committal. We can live our whole lives knowing how to breathe, but unless we act upon that knowledge, and we use it... Our lives don't tend to last all that long.
You have to actively believe in something. You have to hope, whole-heartedly, that it is true, or that it will work. We cannot shy away from our core beliefs...
And yet so often, we do.
We go through the turmoil that we call life, and sometimes, when we get thrown off the bull, we stay down and we rebel and curse God for what he has allowed us to endure.
But we really need to stop and think.
There are two paths you can take when you are thrown down into the dirt, in a cloud of dust and a sudden outcry in pain--two directions you can turn:
You can turn to your Father and ask Him to help you
Or you can get mad at Him for what He's put you through.
There's an old saying that I've recently fallen in love with.
"If He brings you to it, He'll bring you through it."
I think many of us know that inside of ourselves, but when we get thrown into the dirt, off of that figurative, crazed bull, we react like this...
"I've been doing all that I can! What more can I do? I can't take any more! I just need time to heal first."
And then we neglect our spiritual priorities, intending to merely take a break.
The problem with this is that it is precisely at these moments in which we need to care for our spiritual needs the very most.
When we turn in the opposite direction, we practically beg for some form of Divine Intervention, which is the only thing that can really help. Think about it. It may seem to be a less natural response, but how much more realistic is it? He can help you a lot more and it becomes a lot easier if we just follow what we know inside.
Seriously.
Just...
think about that for a little bit.
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