{"id":10499,"date":"2022-12-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=10499"},"modified":"2022-12-02T09:39:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:39:59","slug":"ignoring-advent-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/ignoring-advent-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring Advent!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Ignoring Advent! 12\/05\/22\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=mp7xd-132bd85-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=0&#038;download=0&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=auto&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=60a0c8\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you are comfortable in this world that we live in, then I encourage you to ignore Advent. Christmas is the holiday for you. Waiting and hoping throughout Advent is just a waste of time for you, so jump into the fun stuff, go right to Christmas.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Advent only makes sense if you want something else to hold on to.&nbsp;<\/em>Advent is a special time when we anticipate our favorite stories about&nbsp;Jesus&#8217;&nbsp;birth, but if we do it right, it&#8217;s also a time when we look at ourselves and our world and decide that we shouldn&#8217;t be so comfortable in our world today.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>We shouldn&#8217;t be comfortable that people are starving a stone&#8217;s throw away and that their starvation will last long past the holiday season when we are feeling generous with giving them our canned goods.&nbsp;&nbsp;We shouldn&#8217;t be comfortable that we are standing on the brink of getting so involved in yet another war<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br><em>The alternative is to trust in the kind&nbsp;of&nbsp;King who gets born in a feeding trough, who teaches that people who trust in God should not be concerned about their status or well-being in this world, and who gets strung up on a cross for telling the truth to people who were completely comfortable with the world as they knew it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thanks to Matthew Phillips for sharing this.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Do spend some time today praying to Jesus our King who was born in a feeding trough.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IT IS USUALLY IN THE SEASONS OF SILENCE THAT GOD IS PREPARING YOU FOR SOMETHING GREAT!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are comfortable in this world that we live in, then I encourage you to ignore Advent. Christmas is the holiday for you. 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