How to Get Refreshed
Acts 3:19-20 (NLT)
“Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away. Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord. . ."
Acts 3:19-20(NLT)
Pastor’s Blog
Are you just plain weary and worn out?
“Life is difficult.” With these three words, M. Scott Peck began the first paragraph of the top selling book of the 20th century, The Road Less Traveled. It was the most brilliant and learned of all self help books I have ever read. However, the really interesting thing about it for me is the fact that Peck became a Christian (if unorthodox one) during his writing of the book. His final section on Grace is something I’ll never forget.
After all his massive learning in psychoanalysis from Harvard and private practice, he then learned from the Lord.
Meds and psychological counseling do have their place, but there is one fundamental without which no lasting times of refreshment will ever come; coming clean before God (really coming clean in a remorseful way), asking God to forgive you for your sins (no, you can’t forgive yourself, only God can do that), deciding to entrust your life to this God who, in Jesus Christ offers forgiveness, and finally accepting the reality that because of the cross, there is no longer a black, low lying cloud of condemnation hanging over you.
Are you weary? Whatever you do about it ultimately succeeds only insofar as it builds on this “prescription”.
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