Why Did This Happen to Me?
September 19, 2018
Rick Warren, a pastor who speaks to some 12,000 people every week, says that the question which people ask more than any other is, “Why did this happen to me?” Has that question ever come from your heart? A phone call in the night brought news that your best friend had been injured in an automobile accident. You were laid off at work, replaced by a younger person. The company that you thought was on the way up went south with your savings. Just when your husband retired and you thought you could enjoy life, a stroke changed everything.
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Living faster than ever before and enjoying it less? Millions of people are like that, living in a pressure cooker environment, packing more and more into less and less time, but liking it less every day. Whatever makes life worth living–the leisure walk through the woods, the time to sit and play with your baby, a candlelight meal with your husband, time to read and reflect–are all swallowed up by the monster of doing more and more in less time?
September 18, 2018
How you speak two words tells a great deal about your outlook on life‑‑two very important words that are often spoken at the beginning of the day. Those two very revealing words are, "ANOTHER DAY." Think for a moment. When you awake in the morning and say, "Another day...," how do you say it? The inflection of your voice reveals a lot about your attitude.
September 17, 2018
Do you remember when your friend made a bad choice, a wrong decision like walking out of a marriage, or quitting a job over a petty disagreement, or allowing a disagreement to break a long-time friendship? And you said, That person isnt thinking straight!
Straight thinking cuts to the core of the issue and puts the whole in perspective. It gives you a grasp of the possible consequences, something we rarely have when our decisions are cluttered with anger and bias.
September 14, 2018
Have you ever had the experience of waking up in the morning and asking yourself, How have I gotten to this place? What has happened to me? Where did I go wrong? The realization that you were in the wrong place under the wrong set of circumstances hit you like a ton of bricks. You suddenly realized that you had missed the right turn a few miles back down the road of life. Now you are asking, How do I get out of this mess? Or is there a way out at all?
September 13, 2018
It's a fact: Only ten percent of all people really think. Seventy-five percent think they think, and fifteen percent would rather die than think. Do you believe that? I often close a program with the phrase, Think about it! Yet, quite often, we prefer not to think because when we really do think about something, we are confronted with the consequences of our actions which we prefer not to see.
September 12, 2018
The human brain is an amazing creation. It has spawned the marvelous inventions of space and plummeted the depths of the biological kingdom. It has given birth to the space program, the marvelous advancements of medicine, the libraries of the world, the advancements of civilization, the remarkable achievements in the fields of science, history, anthropology, literature, social studies and a jillion things that neither time nor space allow me to mention. It has also produced the negative rationale behind two world wars and a host of lesser conflicts and the hideous reality of concentration camps, and has filled the prisons of the world because of man's failure to think through the consequences of his actions.
September 11, 2018
Some 3000 years ago the wise man perhaps Solomon himself said it so well: For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Simply put, you become what you think negative or positive. Your thinking shapes your attitude, and your attitude is like the wood carver's tool that molds you into the image you become.
September 10, 2018
How could God really love me if He let this happen to me? If you have never said it, chances are you have thought it at least for a fleeting moment, and perhaps that thought took root in your mind and the logic has become a real problem. In coping with the problem of circumstances which run counter to your belief in a good God who loves you, you may well have to disengage yourself from the broken relationship which stands as a barrier between you and God's love.
September 7, 2018
Afflictions come to us in all sizes and shapes. I am thinking of two individuals in particular one of whom sustained brain damage in a sports injury and then faced a lifelong physical impairment, and another who has grown bitter over the loss of a baby girl found dead in her crib. Both of them talk of God's love. The first speaks of it as a comfort and a strength; the other as an obstacle How could God really love us and allow this to happen? In one case the injury drove him to God; in the other, it drove her away from God.
September 6, 2018
Have you ever doubted God's love? Have you ever faced circumstances that caused you to say, "How could God love me when He has allowed circumstances as these?" It may have been the death of your child, or a mate who deeply disappointed you, or something about which you prayed, and your prayer went unanswered—or so you thought. Possibly you did not verbalize it at all, but way down in your heart you just allowed those thoughts of, “How could this happen if God really loved me?” to reverberate in your soul.
September 5, 2018
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