This Is How To Find Comfort In The Midst of Crisis
August 12, 2021
A few years ago, when Planet Jupiter took a hit by a comet which left a crater larger than our own planet, people began to wonder, "Could the same thing happen to Planet Earth right here?" Others, though more pragmatic, said, "Forget Jupiter. I'm getting direct hits right now that make the chances of getting swept into space by a stray comet seem nothing!"
They say, "My marriage has taken a hit!"
"My health has taken a hit!"
"My job is about to play out on me, and I don't know how I can feed my family!"
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Long ago, the wise man Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun, and the longer I live, the more convinced I am that he was right. Take, for example, management. You want to open an office in another town or city, and you cannot be on location to see whether the manager or the staff are on the job. You want to add another salesperson and when he's on the road, you have no way of knowing whether he is drinking coffee somewhere or out making his calls. What do you do? You strive to manage by agreeing on certain objectives which should be reached; then you measure progress by what is accomplished.
August 11, 2021
A popular Christian song goes, "He'll never let you fall..." and while the words are comforting and assuring, they can be misleading. The fact is that individuals whose hearts have been touched by the divine do, on occasion, stumble badly. Their marriages face difficulty. Their kids don't always stay out of trouble. They don't always stay on the straight and narrow. They stumble, and on occasion they fall. Why? Because God failed them, or because they failed Him?
August 10, 2021
"The man who says he can read his wife like a book, only shows how illiterate he really is." I don't know whom to credit with this bit of wit and wisdom, yet it's true. Both men and women struggle with an abysmal ignorance of each other's psychological make up, and subsequently live with myths that seem to be passed from generation to generation. Like what?
August 9, 2021
For more than 70 years my father-in-law, Dr. Guy Duffield, was a Bible teacher, author, and minister. In his lifetime he wrote books on preaching, on doctrine, and on the practical Christian life. When he was well into his 80s and living in a retirement facility, a young woman from Lebanon who worked where Dr. Duffield resided met him and showed great interest in the fact that he believed that the Bible is a supernatural book.
August 6, 2021
Suppose you are a young man whose best friend has a sister whom you have heard about but never met. Your friend describes her jet-black hair, and lovely eyes, her outgoing vivacious personality and her fun-loving disposition. The more you hear about her, the more interested you become. Week after week, he tells you about her, and you find yourself wanting to meet her. So you say, "How about introducing me to her?" And he replies, "I don't think you believe she really exists." You reply, "That's dumb; of course, I believe she exists. Remember, you showed me her picture!" Should that happen, you would begin to wonder about your friend's sanity.
August 5, 2021
Francois Mitterrand, the late president of France, was an intellectual and an atheist. Yet in the latter years of his life, he had a fascination with death and a desire to know what lies beyond the grave--something which challenged the atheism which he held to, at least philosophically. Possessed by a strange fascination with death, he visited the graves of many of France's leading citizens pondering how they lived and how they died. He once said that "he who loves death loves life."
August 4, 2021
Richard Versalle was portraying the minor role of a law clerk named Vitek in a performance at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He was age 63 and had suffered absolutely no adverse health problems. In the opera there is a beautiful and mysterious woman who wants to live forever. Her father, a chemist-magician, concocts a powerful elixir which allows her to live more than 300 years. But Versalle, portraying the law clerk, sings a line which goes, "You can only live so long." Little did anyone who attended the opera that night realize that those words— "You can only live so long" --would be the last sentence ever to come from the lips of this man whose singing had touched the hearts of thousand and thousands in his career.
August 3, 2021
"Maturity," says the Merriam‑Webster dictionary, "is the condition, or state, of being fully developed." However, the word is often used so loosely that it flaps like a kid's shirttail in the breeze. Michael Drury says, "If you are mature, you are presumed to be happy, secure, married, well‑liked and something called "adjusted." If you aren't mature, you are incorrigible, defective or warped—and heaven help you."
August 2, 2021
The French writer, Guy de Maupassant, was one of the world's greatest writers of short stories. At the same time, he was one of the world's most sad and tragic figures. As a celebrity and writer, he had it all, yet in reality, what he had didn't satisfy. Within a decade, he rose from obscurity to fame as his stories were published in newspapers and journals around the world. His name became a household word. With fame came the trappings of success: a yacht in the Mediterranean, a large house on the Norman Coast, and his luxurious flat in Paris. One biographer put it, "Critics praised him; men admired him; and women worshiped him."
July 30, 2021
"Do I have to believe in Jesus to be a Christian?" asked a young man whose Russian Jewish background had never exposed him to the Gospel. Having been raised in a home in the former Soviet Union where God was seldom if ever discussed, he had heard about Jesus but didn't really know how He would fit into Christianity. He wanted to know. How would you answer that question? There are millions of people whose backgrounds are nominally Christian who still don't understand the relationship between Jesus Christ and Christianity.
July 29, 2021
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