How Do You Stay Warm?

I make no bones about it - I don't like to be cold! I can take 100 degrees easier than I can take
0 degrees. When I get cold, I am cold all over more than anywhere else. And, it is difficult for me to get warm once I have gotten chilled. I don't mean to sound like I am complaining, tho there may be some truth to that, but there is a lesson to be learned. How do you get warm and stay warm? You could add more clothing, but then that gets a little burdensome. You could just stay inside and not get out when the temperature drops. Or maybe we could take some advice from our fine feathered friends who go South for the winter. I know, you are sitting there thinking what can we learn from this. Well, there are, no doubt, times when we become a little cold in our walk with God. We realize that things just aren't what they used to be and we don't like it. So, we try adding some good works to our already busy schedule - still cold. So, we turn to hybernation, thinking that if we stay out of the world, we won't be enfluenced by the world. That doesn't work either, because it hasn't done anything for what caused us to be cold in the first place. Okay, so what about our fowl friends? Well, as the birds in the sky become uncomfortable and turn their backs on the situation, so should we. We can stay in our cold funk or we can move toward the warm love of our waiting Heavenly Father. Then we can begin to understand that the warmest place to be, even in the coldest of times, is in His presence. That is by far the best way to stay warm.