Christmas and the glory of God

Dont waste this Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our fallen default position in this life is to be selfish. We tend to plan so much around the Holidays and especially Christmas toward our family and what we are going to do and where are we going to go. We think that is enough. Laughing and spending time is all that Christmas is about, right?

Well I think we have to search more deeper than that. We have to look to the cross and to the suffering of our Savior. What was the point of it all. To save sinners. To bring glory to Himself. Christmas is a chance for us to fight the temptation to be self centered. To think we are at peace when we are at war. People are going to Hell and we tend to only worry about what presents to buy. You have the words of life. Reach out.

Here is what the prince of Preaches said about soul winning...

"If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms around their knees, imploring them to stay.. let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for"

I like this quote for John Piper in "Dont Waste your life".

We are at war, whether the stocks are falling or climbing, weather the terrorists are hitting or hiding, whether we are healthy or sick. I need to hear this message again and again, because I drift into a peacetime mindset as certainly as rain falls down and flames go up. I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in, I start to to love what others love. I start to call earth "home".

Before you know it I am calling luxuries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I dont think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached peoples drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumph of grace. I sink into a secular mindset that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness.


Please understand that you are in a war. Not only against the cold dark world but against yourself. Please understand Earth is not your home. Now that you are saved, if you are saved, than be prepared to die. Put nothing above your true love, Christ. Preach the gospel to yourself and remind yourself how wretched you were before Christ saved you. Listen to people, just sit back and watch and see they need the message you carry. Please dont water down the message Christ was crucified for, Paul stoned and beheaded and martyr after martyr died for. It was not, "Oh God loves you just so much and if you come to Him then He will make your life better". That is a lie, Preach about sin and repentance and trusting in Christ to save them from the judgment to come. Warn them about this life and that when you do become a Christian things do get harder. People will not love your message but some will. Praise God for that. YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN. Get that...

YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN FOR YOU WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE.

Get your family involved and DONT WASTE YOUR LIFE. You will have plenty of time to laugh, fellowship, sing, etc in Heaven. You are called to reach people with the saving Gospel. That is the only reason you are still here on earth and will be the only thing you will never do again in heaven. DONT WASTE IT. PLEASE, Run hard and finish the race strong. Dont get in the peacetime mind set. ITS NOT PEACE TIME, IF YOU ARE NOT BEING PERSECUTED OR TALKED ABOUT FOR YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST THAN PLEASE DO SOMETHING.

Here are some great ideas from Livingwaters. Our family printed out the Christmas Carols and are going to go to my Grandfathers neighborhood and sing, preach a small message and go to the next house. Please be in prayer.

Here are some ideas by livingwaters.