JUST WHATS ON MY MIND AND IN MY HEART

I must say that God does not make it all that difficult to "Believe in the one He sent."
I have prayed many times about this kind of thing about Christmas and Easter(or whatever other name anyone gives those days) and the Holy Spirit has never convicted me of putting up a Christmas tree and loving our Jesus not only on Christmas or Easter but every day.God STILL looks at the heart.The only ones who have tried to convict me of putting up a Christmas tree are humans.The enemy has attempted and succeeded some of mankind at making our celebration of our Jesus a bad thing. I celebrate Jesus every day of my life.I praise and worship Jesus and give thanksgiving to HIm and He is pretty much all I can ever think about.EVERY DAY including CHRISTMAS DAY AND EASTER.Christmas day as I open my envelope that I place under the tree the night before and read the blessings that God has blessed me with throughout the year,I feel nothing but the peace of God and then a human comes along and tells me this is wrong and I almost let it place ugliness and bad feelings within my heart.Yes there are many things in the Word of God that are VERY CLEAR are indeed wrong and you KNOW those things when they do not sit well with the Spirit God has placed inside of you.One of those things is WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART when you celebrate Christmas or Easter? Is it greed,materialism,just a day off work that means nothing to you? Or is it love,peace,joy,thanksgiving,and contentment in knowing that we are loved by the KING? The bottom line is we know who we are in Christ and that He loves us and the Holy Spirit He has sent to us to guide us will lead us and thus far every time this subject comes up HE leads me to say this

Finally, brothers, whatever is true,
whatever is noble, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable
- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy -
think about these things.
Phil 4:8 NIV

Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent

But to one who, not working [by the Law], trusts (believes fully) in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited to him as righteousness (the standing acceptable to God). Romans 4: 5

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2: 20

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. Galatians 2: 16

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Hebrews 10: 22

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2: 8

For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love. Galations 5: 6

What is in our hearts? GOD KNOWS what is there !!
Right now at this very moment take these words the Spirit is leading me to say,"IS IT ANY WONDER WHY A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM?"

I pray that any who read this take this with the Spirit it was intended.No disrespect intended.
I love you all
In Christ and In His Grace,
Nancy