6 Questions About Worry
May 7, 2021
Some have called it the "acceptable sin of the saints" since almost everyone does it, and few really label it what it is--sin. And what is this wrong which we label "acceptable"? It's worry! And we ignore and justify doing it. "I just can't help it--it's my nature!" Besides, we justify, there is a great deal of difference between anxiety--justified concern--and real worry. Perhaps! But, I for one, am never sure when I've crossed that line and have allowed my sleep to be taken from me as I wrestle with issues when I'm praying about it, but worrying about it at the same time.
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A neighborhood bully about ten years of age was invited to go to a local Sunday School, and the boy went. The teacher recognized the lad and thought to herself, "I better really pour it on because I may never get the chance again!" So she talked about the devil and pictured him as an evil, ugly creature replete with pitchfork and tail spitting fire, ready to devour bad boys who were bullies thinking that she just might scare the kid into the kingdom. The visiting lad squirmed and looked at his feet as she really poured it on. Then after about 20 minutes, she got his attention asking, "Now, young man, what do you think of the devil? Aren't you a little afraid of him?" "Yeah, I guess I am afraid of that big old devil," he drawled, "but if you bring a devil around just my size, I'm sure I could whip him."
May 6, 2021
An acquaintance tells about a businessman who called a friend and got the run-around. "May I please speak with Mr. Jones?" "Just a minute, sir, while I transfer you to his department." Second try: "May I speak with Mr. Jones?" "I'm sorry, I'll have to connect you with his division." After two minutes on hold, a voice comes on the phone and asks, "Who did you want to talk with?" "Mr. Jones, please." "Just a minute..."
May 5, 2021
How much is enough? To be very candid with you, that is a question that I have struggled with personally for several years. Oh, it isn't that I have so much or think I need so much that I have drawn a line and said to myself, "When I get there, I'll give the rest away." The issue with me involves a lifestyle. It is part of the fabric of my faith forced by my coming to grips with the needs of the world.
May 4, 2021
Have you ever heard it said that three moves are as good as a fire? What that means is that every time you move, you throw out things, good things too, which you would like to keep but there is no room to keep them. Why didn't you toss it out a long time ago? You kept it because you were sure it was too good to throw away, so you put it in the closet or stored it in your garage. Eventually, you have to reckon with it. If you want to label the disorder, call it, "CLUTTER!" It isn't only our closets which eventually suffer from clutter. Clutter is a disease of the brain, even of the heart, as well as the closet.
May 3, 2021
Scientists have clearly defined laws that govern our physical world‑‑laws that have been in operation since creation. Those laws are subject neither to the ideas or philosophies of humankind. For example, Sir Isaac Newton articulated the law of gravitation, showing that the gravitational pull of something is inversely proportioned to the mass of the attracting object. The law of gravity has nothing to do with how I feel, or what I think, or whether or not governments should pass laws disallowing the force of gravity. It's there and its force cannot be legislated or countermanded.
April 30, 2021
Have you ever asked yourself what prompts a mom who leads her three grade school kids to the school bus to become a leader in a cultural battle? Or an unremarkable seamstress in the back of the bus to defy the law of the land? Quiet and unassuming people who become passionate for a cause, and to the great surprise of even themselves, often lead the fight for right. How does that happen? What makes some strong enough to lead the fight while others, far better equipped and prepared, are marginalized or give up?
April 29, 2021
You can afford to be ignorant of many things—you can hire an attorney to handle your legal stuff, an accountant to do your books, and a doctor to keep you healthy—but the individual who is ignorant of the Bible has an ignorance he can ill afford.
April 28, 2021
Cultural battles are far more extensive than whether or not your child's teacher embraces gender fluidity or if parents should be notified when a teenager requests contraceptives from a clinic.
April 27, 2021
Never has a generation wanted more from its culture that only Jesus Christ could provide than our present one. Like what? The comforts of prosperity including a home and car, happiness, and money in the bank. When that is the driving force of a society, vast numbers of people buy into the God-will-deliver-the-goods mentality, expecting Him to be the great provider of our expectations. This also explains why there are so many broken homes in the Christian community, why vast numbers of people own Bibles but never read them, go to church periodically and consider it to be pretty good entertainment but are unaffected by what they experience. They face the same problems with their kids – drugs, sexual activity and its consequences – as those who make no pretense to having any relationship with God.
April 26, 2021
Any traveler to Rome today, making his way through the ruins of what was once the greatest city in the world, would have to admit, whatever they were short on, it was not temples. Outdone only by the Athenians, the Romans had temples to the stars and to the gods, to the muses and to the politicians who thought they were gods. There were plenty of them!
April 23, 2021
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