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DISCOURAGEMENT IS CONTAGIOUS, IF PERMITTED.. The "holidays" can be the MOST discouraging time of the year.   But, what actually makes it a solemn reality for many, may go all the way back to a stressful event remembered from childhood that is on automatic "recall" when the holiday season arrives, BUT the key to overcoming - is "what", exactly? Whether its just "privately" dealing with the unforgettable loss of a loved one, or the remembrance of a broken relationship that occurred around "this time" last year, some of the most difficult and tragic circumstances of our lives happens on birthdays, holidays or special occasions - and many of us end up "severely scarred or traumatized" (on the inside) by these events; while it marks us for life in a negative way - if we let it! Well, how do we curb the tide of darkness that seems to engulf our souls, when we allow our remembrance of past events to rob us ...

#1  - Christ is "the standard". Christ is "holiness personified" and finally realized for the sake of every believer, and ultimately "all humanity" when we receive and appropriate HIS "perfect sacrifice". #2  - Christ made holiness possible, by meeting every righteous requirement, and by faith - allowing the "believing disciple" to appropriate HIS Finished Work from faith to faith, from glory to glory, and from strength to strength. #3  - All things are fulfilled or consummated in Christ, so all the believing disciple must do is appropriate, apply and apprehend - as the Spirit wills. #4  - Christ Himself said, "Be ye holy, as I am holy."; and this was a commandment for every believing disciple to enter in to the rest of HIS finished work. It was not a command to do work outside of believing upon the work HE accomplished; but to explicitly and implicitly believe upon what HE completed at Calvary.  As long as the believe...