Today is the first day of the brand new year of 2010! Wow! Today the sun is shining here in Western KY and with the sunshine comes a cold temperature of 18 this morning. The cold brings thoughts of last winter when I stepped out of my apartment on the morning after the ice storm in January. I had never seen ice totally enclose my car like this. After trying to open the car door to get in I knew I had to find a pry bar of some sort. After finding a hammer I begin to crack ice. Wasn't sure whether this was a good idea but I needed to get in my car to start the thaw. It worked ,my door opened and my car started.The thawing began. Just one more challenge of many I have faced. After about one hour of my car running the ice was melting from the windows and hood. While sitting in my car , waiting for the ice to melt reminded me of our hearts in frozen mode.
What is frozen mode? Makes me think about people who may still be there frozen and unable to break the ice. Then a big ole hammer comes along and starts chipping away at the very outer core. The chips fall away and nothing seems to make any difference to them. The chips just melt and run off like a stream into the drain filling up their resources with water. We get busy with life and things seem to be going well. Then the storm comes again and this time brings thicker ice. How will we break the ice this time?
We look into the ice and we see a reflection. The ice is a reminder to us that we have been here before and everything came out OK. Sometimes the ice is so cold that the thought of going through it again though is more than we want to endure. Where is our help in time of need? Let's stop and consider our emotions. What comes to mind? Where does our help come from? Is there any hope for us? Who is my hope in? Those thoughts all came to me after many storms in my life. There I was melting the ice again. This time I knew where my hope and strength come from and another reminder of who Jesus is and why I now have such joy in my life. May He stir your spirit this new year of 2010 and bring you an abundance of His joy,health and wealth .
Think about the times you felt alone and lost. Maybe you needed someone and no one was there. Mary was alone when the angel Gabrielle visited her and announced the good news. The news must have been very frightening to her and she surely must have felt very alone. This may have been like an ice storm to her.
We can marvel at the way God works. When we think there is no hope you can bet He is there to bring us out of the storm and melt away all the ice that has accumulated. We do have much to learn about Jesus and much to learn from Him. Again I say, Lord help us have a new year where all our family and friends come to know who will bring them out of their storms of life. Life is not always about who we are but most definitely about who You are Jesus.
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