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It's early Christmas morning and it's my time to blog and spend time with God. I'm re-thinking about my chances of being able to walk again. As my readers know, I am unable to use my legs anymore due to my former addiction (I won't get into the details again right now). There's something I want to share with you.
I visited with my orthopedic doctor yesterday who gave me the grim results of my latest MRI's. He told me that there is a "slight" chance I could only possibly walk again if I decide to agree to a 6 hour surgery where my lower spine would be fused together. This would cause me to be unable to bend. He told me to go home and think about it. He advised me that, at the least, it could lessen my degree of pain. I told him that I "may" agree to it as long as he does NOT administer any narcotic painkillers post op. He said that I wouldn't be able to tolerate that degree of pain after surgery and that he would need to give me 2 days of narcotics and then stop them. Shivers ran down my sore spine.
So...I've been thinking about those "2 days". I've always said that I firmly believe that addiction is a temporary acute problem rather than an ongoing chronic "disease" as the 12 step programs would like us to believe (I still believe this). As I ponder this and pray about it, I believe that addiction is a "BODY SNATCHER". Yes...a BODY SNATCHER! My decision is NOT to have surgery because of those "2 days". If you have suffered from addiction, you know that once those drugs enter your body, they own your soul. You are no longer who you really are ... the drugs immediately take you over. You mind, your body, your soul, and your spirit, just soak them up...you lose control...all that matters are the drugs and the very temporary and very evil "high" they produce. As long as you don't allow them "in", you're fine; however, allow them in and you're back in hell again.
CONCLUSION: I would rather spend a lifetime in severe pain tham 2 days on drugs. Drugs will NEVER again snatch my body. Goodbye to the "body snatcher" from hell...forever! Pain? I can deal with it...through prayer and the power of God and my mind.
Today, when most celebrate the birth of the Christ...Jesus, I celebrate the meaning of His life and His mercy. I thank Him for what He has done for me. Join me today by putting aside your gifts from people and worship the true "Gift Giver" who has given us the "Gift"that matters...a second chance and eternal life through receiving Him.
God bless you all! Have a beautiful day with your loved ones and God.
Greg Laurie emphasizes pre-existent nature of baby Jesus December 19, 2009 By Greg Laurie
How often do you look at your watch in a given day? Or check the time? Or ask someone else what time it is? Why do we do that? We do it because we govern our lives by time. There is a time that we get up in the morning. There is a time when we go to work or school. There is a time when we go home. There is a time when we go to bed and when we get up the next morning and repeat the process. We live our lives by the clock, and we have a constant awareness of time.
According to the Bible, we even live our lives for a certain period of time – not a moment longer and not a moment shorter. You can eat free-range chicken and organic vegetables and use all of the lotions and potions and special vitamins available, but you will not live one day longer than God wants you to live. Nor will you live one day shorter. The Bible says, "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die" (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 NIV).
As one person said, "Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them." The problem is that we spend a lot of our lives doing things we would rather not be doing. We have control over some of these things, but not all of them. For example, the average American will spend six months of their lives sitting at traffic lights, one year searching desk clutter for misplaced objects, five years waiting in lines, three years in meetings and eight months opening junk mail.
As C. S. Lewis said, "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
We live by time, while God exists outside of time. I am not implying that God is unaware of time, because He is completely aware of every minute and second of our lives and everything that is happening in them. But God lives in the eternal realm. Therefore, we might say that God's interpretation of time is quite different from ours.
God has His own timing, and there are times in life when it appears to us as though God is late, as though God is somehow disengaged and not paying attention. And sometimes as we look at the way the world is going, we wonder whether God is aware of what it is like right now.
That is how it was at the time of Jesus' birth. Israel was tired of waiting. They felt it was time for the Messiah to arrive. They were difficult and dark days in the history of Israel. In fact, the time in which they were living when Christ finally came was almost as bad as it was under Pharaoh's rule in Egypt, because they were under the control of Rome and the tyrannical rule of the puppet King Herod.
Who Was Herod? • Roman-appointed King of Judea from around 37 BC to 4 BC • A bloody ruler who killed political rivals • Ordered the Massacre of Innocents to protect his throne • Behind ambitious building projects including expanding Second Jewish Temple and walls around Jerusalem While Herod was known for the great buildings he erected, he was also known for his paranoia. He would have anyone he saw as a potential threat to his throne killed. He had two of his sons put to death because he thought they would try to lead a coup against him. It was said of Herod that it was better to be one of his pigs than one of his sons.
The fact is that 6 B.C. was a lousy time to be living in Judea. People were wondering when God was going to intervene. They had not heard from him for 400 years. Not a single prophet had delivered a message from heaven. There had been no miracles and no angelic appearances – only a stony silence from heaven. The people were probing. They were searching. They were wondering when things were going to change.
But there was a sense that something was in the air, that something was about to break. And indeed it was – because the moment was coming for the Messiah to arrive. It all started with the aged priest, Zacharias. As he was in the temple bringing sacrifices on behalf of the people, the angel Gabriel came to him with the announcement that he would be the father of the forerunner of Jesus, John the Baptizer. The wonderful story was about to unfold.
But we need to understand that the Christmas story did not start in Luke or in Matthew. The Christmas story began much further back. Although Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem, being God and being a part of the Trinity, he is pre-existent. He is eternal. When we celebrate his birth in the manger in Bethlehem, we are celebrating when he came to this world as a man. But he has always been and always will be. Jesus said, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End" (Revelation 21:6 NIV).
Isaiah summed it up well when he said, "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given" (Isaiah 9:6). That gives us the story of the arrival of Jesus from both heaven and Earth's perspective. "To us a child is born" is the story of a birth. "To us a son is given" is the story of a departure from heaven.
From heaven's perspective, the son left glory and came to walk among us and breathe our air and live our life and then die our death. From Earth's perspective, God came to us as a man who was deity in diapers – God almighty as a little, helpless baby.
When the angel appeared to a group of shepherds and announced, "Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:11 NIV), essentially he was saying, "Don't look to the palace for the savior of the world. Look to the manger in Bethlehem. Don't look at that self-proclaimed god in Rome wrapped in satin, but look at the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. There is the savior of the world." He came and gave up everything to serve us. It was the ultimate gift to humanity. His pain was our gain.
Someone wisely said that history swings on the hinge of the door of a stable in Bethlehem. This was the moment in human history that God chose to bring us a savior. And our world has never been the same.
Did you ever hear from a friend that someone said some untrue or unkind things about you? All of a sudden, so many people are giving you the "look" and won't speak to you any longer. You wonder how these people could feel this way about you when they don't even know you; even if they did know you, then, why didn't they come to you themselves and ask you if what was being said was true? It's so unfair and unjust. Rumors!!! They can destroy you.
Jesus has this happen to Him all the time and He's God. People judge Him based on untruth that is spread...mostly by so-called "believers" or "wannabe believers". Since you don't want anyone doing this to you, then, give God the chance He deserves. Decide your feelings about Him based on His Word...NOT other people. Go to the Source! Your eternity depends on it. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." —Matthew 11:28-30.
I have a quick survey question for you. You can post your responses below or you can email me with them at AnAddictNoMore@aol.com I will post your responses (anonymously, of course) next month. Thank you, ahead of time, for your answers. I'll give you my answer now...
I am here because God created me. He created me with a purpose; that purpose is to serve Him in the path He directs me.
To Whom do I owe the healing of my addiction to? I owe it all to my God...my Jesus. He says, "If you love me, you will obey what I command". John 14:15 And so, each and every day, once I open my eyes, I pray that I can do His will for my life.
An honest man was being tailgated by a stressed out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly, the light turned yellow just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.
The tailgating woman hit the roof, and the horn, screaming in frustration as she missed her chance to get through the intersection.
As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked up into the face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up. He took her to the police station where she was searched, finger-printed, and photographed, and then placed in a holding cell.
After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened the door. She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal effects.
He said, "I'm very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, flipping off the guy in front of you, and cussing a blue streak at him. I noticed the 'Choose Life' license plate holder, the 'What Would Jesus Do?' bumper sticker, the 'Follow Me to Sunday School' bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk. Naturally, I assumed you had stolen the car!"
It's early Christmas morning and it's my time to blog and spend time with God. I'm re-thinking about my chances of being able to walk again. As my readers know, I am unable to use my legs anymore due to my former addiction (I won't get into the details again right now). There's something I want to share with you.
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