PAT(Praising, Admonishing, Teaching) Blog

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Think about this...

The following is called "Christmas Meditation" from a poetry book titled Wings and Sky by Martha Snell Nicholson:

Suppose that Christ had not been born
That far away Judean morn.

Suppose that God, Whose mighty hand
Created worlds, had never planned

A way for man to be redeemed.
Suppose the wise men only dreamed

That guiding star whose light still glows
Down through the centuries. Suppose

Christ never walked here in men's sight,
Our blessed Way, and Truth, and Light.

Suppose He counted all the cost,
And never cared that we were lost,

And never died for you and me,
Nor shed His blood on Calvary

Upon a shameful cross. Suppose
That having died, He never rose,

And there was none with power to save
Our souls from death beyond the grave!

As far as piteous heathen know,
These things that I've "supposed"--are so!

Monday, December 23, 2013

Producing the Fruit of the Spirit

The fruit of the Spirit--love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control--has been shared with you this Christmas month through posts of songs, words and a brief sermon. It is only through abiding in Christ and Christ abiding in us that we produce fruit (John 15:4).

"Wise men still seek Him" are the words from a Christmas card sent to my household. "After ['wise men'] are born into God's family by the Word of God, [they] grow [by the Word also]. (From a gospel booklet sent to my household entitled--"What Does it Mean to Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?" by Mrs. Oliver B. Greene p. 18). On pages eighteen and nineteen of the same booklet it says, "Truly--"Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before". " We shall grow spiritually and produce the fruit of the Spirit each day we abide in Christ and He abides in us. Amen.