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Newsltr122009-Heart of Mercy Amidst a Season of Trouble
“Amidst a season of trouble, there awaits a heart of Mercy”

by the Watchman Dana G Smith
Keywords: heart, Lord, God, Jesus, Christ, despair, discontent, winter, depression, love

As I sit here in the early morning hours, the weather has been warming up. The cold snap has moved away. Thus another portion begins. One begins, another follows, till the season of winter is over. That is one thing we have here is winter. Last September, I wrote an article titled, “America’s Winter of Discontent”. Winter can be a tough time for many. Especially around Christmas time. Many today celebrate this holiday, but the season of celebrating for many goes from Thanksgiving to New Years. During that time, people can go through depression and turmoil. It is a fact that Christmas depression and related troubles hit many during this time. Factor in the ‘winter’, ‘cold’, and some being ‘alone’, it can bring on such troubles.

For years winter was a bothersome time to me, including holidays. Today, however, by the presence of the Lord and his power, it is no longer that way. Those times were times of struggling with the Lord over certain things I had gone through and his people. Yes, the people of God, the deacons, the Pastors, and I had a quarrel. It was a long running feud between me and the Lord. In the end, my ways, and the root of bitterness that had built up, were uprooted and torn to shreds by the power of God and my repentance. Although I was indeed harmed, through no fault of my own, or so I thought, by the so called people of God, I kept the wound festering and root growing. But the Lord helped to realize that this root was hurting me more than the people who had actually been part of it. One of my sins in that church was being to zealous. As many of you know, for I have said it on air, two deacons caught me alone on the stairwell on a Sunday am service and castigated my zeal for the Lord saying “we don’t want your kind here, your to zealous.” “Take your bags and go back to school and leave.” Soon I would go from believing I was in the perfect will of God to being with my family alone, in a different state, unemployed, and at Christmas. We were taught in school to always preach with your bags packed, but somehow, at this time, the teaching did not seem to help any!

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