Fear Not

Saturday December 5^th, Luke 21: 34 "Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. 35 For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man." Live your life in the presence of God. Show your love in the presence of God. There is a tendency to compartmentalize our lives. Sunday morning for church, Sunday afternoon for football (more often, that is Sunday morning also), Monday for work, Tuesday evening bowling, Thursday go out to eat with the family, Friday is date night, etc. The trouble is that we tend to leave God back on the Sunday morning compartment and work to keep him out of the rest of our compartmentalized lives. If Christ is the light of the world that means the rest of our compartmentalized lives remain in the dark. It is in the darkness that the fear mongers, like “left behind” and some politicians and preachers ply their trade. Immanuel, God with us means that God goes in all the compartments of life and begins with the words, “fear not.”