Shopping Season

Our daughter was shopping at a wholesale store recently and sent my wife this text, “Insane how packed it is on Wednesday afternoon!” My wife’s reply to her was, “Tis the season”. The busy shopping season has begun. It’s a great time of the year for retailers. 

During this season as Christians, we mustn’t venture out without asking the Holy Spirit to fill us with patience and give us the strength to maintain a Christ-like spirit. 

This is a shopping season when many people are searching for, hoping for, something that will satisfy a craving, fulfill a longing, or give them a thrill. For some it will be a party, alcohol, a new car, new clothes, a new boyfriend/girlfriend perhaps. For some, their happiness comes from a sale at the mall, and their many purchases. It’s a season when many are looking for a “high” which turns out to be only temporary. 

Friend, there is a “high” you cannot buy. It’s righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17). It’s not something temporal but something that is eternal and lasting. It comes to us as a gift when we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior. It gets sweeter as the days go by. It’s a God thing that stays with you. The ultimate experience, the greatest joy, and it provides maximum satisfaction. God loves us and will lift us higher and higher the deeper we go with Him. 

This shopping season don’t search for a temporary “high”. Discover something that lasts, something that is real.

 

The Pastor’s Pocket

Pastor Bruce Freeman

 

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