I love the cold air. I love the blankets and quilts on the bed and feeling them wrapped around me. I love jackets and scarves and gloves. I love the few trees with bare binestems we have in this land of evergreens.
Snow.
It rarely snows here and if it does it doesn't usually accumulate.
Last night our city had a Christmas festival downtown. Glen, our daughter, her boyfriend and I went. It was very festive and two businesses had snow machines on their balconies. I use the word snow here in the loosest sense.
When you looked up at the sky, it looked pretty good. Even some fluttering around your face seemed real enough. But when it landed on your jacket or hair, you could tell it wasn't really snow. It was foam. Not cold, but soap.
It was a disappointment to expect a snowflake and see a blob of soap. It started out looking like the real thing, but upon close examination, it just wasn't. It didn't live up to the test and in the end it was more of a disappointment than a satisfaction.
Unfortunately, there are people like that. They claim the title "Christian" and they may even do some good things, but upon closer examination it is obvious they really don't know the Lord and care to follow Him. A relationship with them brings disappointment instead of satisfaction. Let us seek to bind ourselves to those true believers who will daily exhort, encourage, comfort and uplift us in our walk with the Lord. Let us also walk as bright example to others "abounding in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit".
"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. " Matthew 7:20,21
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