A few weeks ago my daughter was playing in my parents garage and she came across a pile of books. Like any avid, curious reader, she picked up a flowery, pink book and started reading. A little while later she brought the book inside to show my mom. My mother could not remember having ever owned the book and had no idea where it came from. When Wesley and I came back from wherever we'd been, I saw the book sitting on the couch. A small flutter of a memory came. It started as a small tiny puff of a cloud and then turned into a full fledged rain storm of memories as I picked up the book and started flipping through it. I knew where this book had come from, it had been mine in a previous life. I say previous life because the woman that types here today is certainly not the same woman who owned that book.
That woman was lost, she was wandering in the desert without water and was living without hope. She was searching for meaning to her life. She happened to be watching Oprah one day. Oprah recommended a new book called Simple Abundance, A Daybook of Comfort and Joy. It was like a devotion that you would read everyday, only this was no devotion. It was all about the power of YOU, you can do anything, be anything, you don't need anyone or any god as long as your inner spirit is good. I don't remember how long I read that book or what I thought while I was reading it, but I know I never finished it.
Yesterday a friend forwarded me the following short video about Oprah. I encourage you to watch it and be informed of what you are watching on television. satan is no mind reader, but he is smart and conniving and he can twist anything-even God's Holy Word that is God breathed and that is living and active, and reduce it to just "a good book". He can take Jesus sacrifice of dying on the cross for our sins and reduce it to nothing. He knows God's Word better than you or I and he knows how to use it against us. This is all the more reason and encouragement to study God's Word and to memorize it and hide it in your heart. It is your sword- your only weapon against the powers of darkness, never forget that.
"Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me."
John 14:6
1 comment:
I was also a woman wandering in the desert and without hope at about the same age you probably were when you read this book. It's too bad Oprah has gone New Age, because there are a lot of women who really hang on her every word. She could be a help to so many wandering, deperate women if she would only point them toward Jesus.
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