We are taught that we must become upright people who, in God’s sight, are blameless and fully keep His commandments. “In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly” [(Modern Translation: “When Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah of the division of Abijah, and his wife Elizabeth also came from the family of Aaron. They were righteous before God and faithfully kept all the Lord’s commandments and regulations without fault”)] (Luke 1:5–6). While meditating on this passage, I would like to draw out the lessons given to us: (1) The author of Luke’s Gospel, Luke, first wrote to Theophilus about John the Baptist’s parents. The father’s name was “Zechariah” (meaning, “The LORD remembers...
"Emotional debt" " To be emotionally free, you need to remove the obstacles that keep you in emotional debt. Emotional debt is any accumulation of unresolved old feelings that causes you to distort your view of the present. When you are in emotional debt, you consume so much energy trying to conceal old feelings that you have insufficient energy left to work effectively or to love with commitment. Unaddressed feelings also have great power to prejudice your judgement and over-sensitize you, causing you to take innocent events personally, overreact to them, lose control, and in so doing, loss faith in yourself." (David Viscot, "Emotionally Free" in H. Norman Wright's "WHEN THE PAST WON'T LET YOU GO")