JANUARY 2022 NEWSLETTER
Newsletter 2022 January
Robert
Lindenberger
3325 3rd
Ave.
Mims, FL 32754.
321-368-7184
Happy
New Year— 2022
I
woke up this morning at 7 o’clock, and it was dark. My mind reminded me of reading this:
1
John 1:6. If we say that we have
fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
Critics
use the word dark to describe movies, television shows, comic books, songs, and
other forms of entertainment that are troubling, evil, or depressive. In the same way, we sometimes say about
someone, “He’s in a dark place right now.” That’s biblical terminology; the
apostle John frequently spoke of light and darkness. The entire world is in darkness, groping for
direction and hope, apart from God’s people. But the followers of Christ have sunlight
streaming into their paths and have no need for night vision goggles.
If
there’s a dark spot somewhere in your heart or habits, confess it to God and ask
Him to bleach it from your system. Then,
when we get to heaven, we will be sinless, spotless, and blameless in all our
ways. Until then, we work each day to
stay on the pathway of light. The Bible
says, “but the path of the just is like a shining sun, that shines ever
brighter and to the perfect day” (Proverbs 4:18).
If
God had wanted us completely out of the world, he could have taken us as home
to heaven when our spiritual birth…. But, instead, we are to shine as lights in
the world system’s doctors.
--A. W.
TOZER
What
do you think the most important part of your day is?
Some
people would say breakfast, while others might say spending time with family. While both of those are important, I would
tell you that the most important part of your day is spending time in God’s
Word.
I
know some people who eat breakfast every day and are starving for the Word of
God. I have also seen people whose
family is functionally falling apart, and one of the first things I always ask
those people is, “How often are you spending time in God’s Word?”
A chaplain once offered a New Testament to a soldier, who
said he would smoke the pages. The
texture of the pages of some New Testaments is perfect for rolling cigarettes. So the chaplain urged the man to read the
pages before lighting them up. Two
months later, the chaplain learned the soldier had died. The first pages were missing in the man’s New
Testament, but the rest appeared to be well-read. Inside the cover were the words: “Here is a
book which I once despised, then read and through it found salvation in
Christ.”
God,
where are You? If You’re good, then it
seems to me that things should work out like this-,’ and I impose my definition
of good on God. And I say, ‘This is what
the word good means: It means that I won’t get cancer again. It means my wife won’t die prematurely. It means my kids will be healthy and make
enough money to pay the bills.’
“When
I look at God and say, ‘You’re not cooperating with my definition of good, the
natural consequence is not trust, not worship. It’s idolatry. I’m going to find some other god that agrees
with my definition of good. Satan comes
along and basically says, ‘I’ll arrange for what you want.’ And you’ll have
certain pleasures for a season, and then it’ll be awful.”
It
is not God’s intention to give us everything we want. Getting what we want is not the key to
happiness, peace, or contentment. Our
judgment is skewed since we cannot see the full picture and do not have all the
facts. God would not be God if He could
not see all things and judge all situations for the ultimate good.
God’s
Word is absolute truth; don’t let your doubts get in the way of His perfect
plan. Billy Graham said that he and his
son were on a boat. His son was on his
lap, and he was steering the bost, but his son knocked his hands off the
steering wheel and said, Please, daddy,
I’d rather do it myself,” and ran the boat ashore. We must let the Holy Spirit have His hands on
the steering wheel and not try to knock them off. If we don’t, we fail
Troubles and heartache are a thermometer to tell us our spiritual temperature. I often say I am more at work than the d evil in my journey here on planet Earth. Yet, I keep on keeping on falling into the slippery slough of self-pity and need to be brought back to my love for my Savior, Jesus Christ. He brings me back when I think of what He went through here on planet Earth. He came to His own and was rejected and suffered, died on a cross, and rose again so that we may have life more abundantly. When I think on these things, I can feel Him lifting me out of the slough of self-pity, and I can hear Him say, “Well done, my faithful servant.” It makes me cry tears of JOY because Jesus loves me even when I fall into the “ALL ME” pool.
I have a son in the Lord. I followed the Holy Spirit’s leading and saw
him become a child of God. We were in
the Navy and aboard a ship. We spent
many hours in fellowship in the word.
After I was discharged, Ken and I kept in touch. But while he served, Ken was asked to hold
divine services on that ship, and then he was discharged, went to college, and
became a Chaplain. As all father and son
relationships happen, the child becomes the parent, and I thank God for that
because my son, now parent, has helped me through some really hard times in
these 60 years. Now my son, parent, has
been hospitalized with a broken heart.
Please hold him up to the throne and ask God’s will be done? (This was written in 2018. It is now 2022; Ken is with the One who loved
him most, Jesus Christ our LORD!) May
Jesus Christ be praised?
Happy New Year. It will be the best ever if you put Christ
first in your life and ask him how you may serve him. God bless you real good.
I have a son in the Lord. I followed the Holy Spirit’s leading and saw
him become a child of God. We were in
the Navy and aboard a ship. We spent
many hours in fellowship in the word.
After I was discharged, Ken and I kept in touch. But while he served, Ken was asked to hold
divine services on that ship, and then he was discharged, went to college, and
became a Chaplain. As all father and son
relationships happen, the child becomes the parent, and I thank God for that
because my son, now parent, has helped me through some really hard times in
these 60 years. Now my son, parent, has
been hospitalized with a broken heart.
Please hold him up to the throne and ask God’s will be done? (This was written in 2018. It is now 2021; Ken is with the One who loved
him most, Jesus Christ our LORD!) May
Jesus Christ be praised?
Happy New Year. It will be the
best ever if you put Christ first in your life and ask him how you may serve
him. God bless you real good.
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