Guidelines For Living

Harold Sala

Why You Can Still Have Peace When Life Unravels

May 24, 2019

When the sky turns dark, your health fails, your marriage partner walks out on you, or you are fired from the job you hoped you would keep until retirement, your world gradually unravels. Paul's words, "In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus," seem to torment you.  No matter how you try to put things together, it just doesn't make sense.

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"Dear Dr. Sala," wrote a friend, "Would you have any suggestions to help people who have reached their eighties and feel they have nothing to live for?  I admit feeling very useless at times. I am 82, in a wheel chair, and have little energy."
May 23, 2019
An eminent psychologist, Joseph Kreisler, recognized the importance of contentment from having observed problems of human nature from a professional viewpoint.  Dr. Kreisler says, "If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself and what you want, what you like, what attention other people ought to pay you, and then you will find nothing will satisfy you.  You will spoil everything you touch, and finally, you will make pain and misery out of everything God sent you." 
May 22, 2019
"Faith," wrote the Quaker scholar Elton Trueblood, "is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."  Yet the fact is, faith seems to contradict the world of reality.  It is no wonder that the writer of Hebrews described faith as the "conviction of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1, NASB).  It is the battle of the tangible versus the intangible, the seen versus the unseen, the material versus the spiritual.
May 21, 2019
When Dr. Stanley Collins, a renowned Bible teacher and conference speaker, was felled with a heart attack, he looked up towards heaven, and though he did not actually say these words, his heart cried out, "Why me, Lord?"   Collins, like King Hezekiah who lay dying long ago, reminded the Lord of what he had been doing for Him.  Then, without hearing any voices or seeing any visions in the sky, Collins says it was almost as if he heard a voice so clearly say, "Why not you?" 
May 20, 2019
When Larry Alexander learned that he had eighteen months to live, his world came crashing down. The prospect of experimental surgery offered some hope, but the future was pretty bleak. His wife, Anne, then pregnant with their third child, faced the stress of having to raise their three children, provide for the family and nurse a man who faced the prospect of losing his life.
May 17, 2019
It's an old story retold many times. In the fourteenth century, there was a duke named Ranald who lived in the country we now know as Belgium. The duke was not only overweight; he was grossly indulgent. He craved food and his appetite for more was never fully satisfied, so much so that the peasants called him Crassis which in Latin means "the fat one."
May 16, 2019
Author Ann Voskamp’s book. One Thousand Gifts, has had a huge impact on many lives. After reading the book, women (and I suppose some men) went out and bought notebooks. They bought notebooks in which to daily record all the “gifts” in their lives that they could give thanks for, whether large or small. It’s a great exercise, especially if you keep at it until you’ve actually listed a thousand things, because it has a huge effect on your eyesight—the eyesight of the soul, that is.
May 15, 2019
Finding your way back after an adulterous relationship is difficult, but it can be done. There's a roadmap which guides you when you recognize what a dreadful thing has happened and you sincerely want forgiveness, healing, and--yes! --restoration with your husband or wife.  The roadmap is found in Psalm 51, and David, the author, simply describes the components of restoration which he went through.
May 14, 2019
Grace is getting what you don't deserve; justice is getting exactly what you deserve, and mercy is not getting what you really deserve.  David knew that, and that's why, following his affair with Bathsheba, he pled for God's mercy.  "Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions."
May 13, 2019
Along with many other dictionaries, The Oxford English Dictionary takes more space to define the word touch than any other word.  Its vast gamut of meanings can hardly be compressed into a single dictionary definition.  Without touch you lose one of the most important of all the five senses. 
May 10, 2019
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About Guidelines For Living

Start your day with hope, confidence, and purpose by listening to the Guidelines for Living daily devotional with Harold Sala! This 5-minute program offers insightful teaching from God’s Word and practical application for living out your faith in the day-to-day. Strengthen your relationship with Jesus by adding this short devotional to your daily routine.  Guidelines for Living is the longest running five-minute program in Christian radio!  

About Harold Sala

Speaker, author and Bible teacher, Dr. Harold Sala founded Guidelines in 1963 and pioneered the first 5-minute Christian program on radio.  Dr. Sala holds a Ph.D. in biblical text and has taught at conferences, seminars and churches the world over.  An author of over 60 books published in 19 languages, his most recent release is 40 Unstoppable Women (Rose Publishing).

 

 

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