“Good Heaven!” said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked about him. “I was bred in this place. I was a boy here!” In this interchange between Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past we see the softening influence of looking back on one’s life.
Sri Lankan pastor Daniel Thrambajaya Niles reminds us that with-God life is not solitary. We enter a family of fellow believers. And in Christ, we are to embrace all the world as brothers.
“Jesus as the truth gets far more attention than Jesus as the way.” Eugene Peterson encourages us to pattern ourselves after the way of Jesus rather than the ways of the world.
