I Like Life!

     December - the last month of 2012.  We are approaching another milestone as 2013 is just around the corner.  No matter how you choose to participate or boycott the annual events of this holiday season, this month will trigger many nostalgic memories for all of us.  From Thanksgiving to Hanukkah or Christmas, to New Year's Eve, the annual repetition of family and church events packed into this month make it especially difficult to experience if you have lost a loved one in 2012.  This Sunday, December 2nd, Lexington Baptist is conducting a Memorial Service at 6:00 PM.  The purpose for this service is primarily to offer people who are in the grief process an opportunity to remember and honor their loved one and draw strength from the Holy Spirit and God's Word to face a world that for them has changed drastically because of death. 
     Death is not something we want to dwell upon.  Ebeneezer Scrooge sang (in the Albert Finney version of Scrooge), "I like life, life likes me, especially mine which is just as it should be!"  But just when we feel like things in our lives are "just as they should be," death can barge in the door and just kick all the furniture over and wreck havoc.  Death is a reality that will be a part of every life sooner or later, even the life that truly is "just as it should be!"  BTW, no life can be "just as it should be" without dying to self and being redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ.
      I hope you will spend some time between now and the end of this year just getting your house in order - not with decorations, but with the priorities of life so that you can truly live and enjoy life in perfect harmony with God and with your fellow man.  Don't just try to recreate a nostalgic moment this month.  Create some new memories by going to places where you've never been before.  Go to new heights and new depths with the Lord our God.   Let's hear Him, trust Him, and obey Him in 2013!
    

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