Go on with Life!
Have you ever met anyone who constantly dwelt upon past mistakes? Those people never move on with life because they continue reliving past events. …
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What’s All this Overcoming Getting Me?
Overcoming life’s difficulties is fun. Everyone enjoys winning.
But the act of overcoming sometimes wears us out. Fighting one battler after another horribly fatigues us. After awhile, we begin wondering about the purpose of all this overcoming bit.
Overcoming is fun, if it isn’t too hard. …
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Why God Took Care of Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar never qualified as Mr. Nice Guy. Mr. Mean Guy, yes, but certainly not Nice Guy. About 600 years before Jesus, Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian army cruelly oppressed all Middle Eastern Countries. In fact, his meanness motivated him to roast Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
But listen to this! …
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Benefiting From Your Mind Time
“Think about such things,” Philippians 4:8.
What things?
Things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent or praiseworthy.
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Submitting Our Thoughts to the Lord of Pleasantness
There is plenty of unpleasantness in our world. Well, there is also plenty of pleasantness.
On a cloudy Monday morning, Delores and I sat down to breakfast in a bayside hotel restaurant. While sipping coffee and waiting for our meals to arrive, we excitedly chattered about the beautiful morning. Although a blanket of clouds hid the blue sky, small gaps in the cloud cover permitted shafts of brilliant sunlight to shine upon the bay’s rough surface. Seagulls soared overhead, fishing pelicans crashed into the water and shrimp boats puttered about. What marvelous displays of Father’s splendor! …
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Attached to the Blessed One
Potiphar worshipped the crocodile god, prayed to the sun god and trusted in all the gods of his Egyptian forefathers. He knew nothing about the one true God, who created the universe.
Potiphar had one thing going for him: he attached himself to a young Hebrew slave named Joseph. Joseph trusted in the one true God, the God of his forefathers: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The true God loaded Joseph down with divine blessings which spilled over into Potiphar’s life. “From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph,” Genesis 39:5. …
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Doing Good When It Isn’t Easy
It’s fun to do good when doing good is easy. When rewards for well-doing abound, we rejoice in our labor. We gladly look forward to carrying out our responsibilities and finishing “to do” lists. Work seems like recreation. …
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Feeling Positive About Your Loss
After his team lost a game, I heard a basketball coach say, “I’ve never felt so positive about a loss.” I don’t know if the man was a Christian, but his statement is very Scriptural. Every born again, Jesus-loving Christian can have the faith to feel positive about the losses that life brings. …
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In the Process of Succeeding
The four Gospels show us twelve apostles who stumbled through life from one failure to another. Yes, they did some things right but the Gospel record emphasized their failures. Then we turn to Acts and see the apostles racing from success to success. Why such a contrast between the Gospel narrative and the Acts record? I think God planned this to show us that we are in the process of succeeding. …
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When You Don’t Feel Blessed
Two thousand years ago God’s people felt unblessed. Sure, they repeatedly read the promises God pronounced upon their ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but where were the blessings? A foreign government manipulated their lives and ruthlessly repressed all yearnings for independence. Poverty afflicted almost everyone and religious leaders used their influence for self-gratification. …
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