Word for Today, Tue, 13 Jun 2000: Content in all things
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
Please read the enclosed scripture passage. It comes from a
letter of the apostle Paul to the church in Corinth. As you can
tell by the letter, Paul and his partners have anything BUT an
easy life. They are tested and challenged in every way. Even
their lives are continually threatened. At the same time, though
they have trials and sorrows, and though people are trying to
discredit every single thing they say or do, they are content,
and even rejoice, though they have reason to have sorrow.
Do you have any idea why they feel the way they do? I believe
that I understand this, because I identify with them. It is God
who put a change of attitude into their hearts, and it is God who
has put a change of attitude into my heart as well.
Personally, I manage well. Yet it is not as though I have not
had any hardships. Like Paul and his companions, there have been
times when I have tried to be kind to others, and instead, I have
been deceived and taken advantage of. Does that cause me any
sorrow or anger? Sure it does. Yet, at the same time, when I
know that I am in the place that I am intended to be, I am
content, even joyful.
My greatest sorrow comes, not when someone attempts to make life
unpleasant, but when I choose to go somewhere or do something
other than what my Lord has intended for me. Any other sorrow is
temporary, at most.
My greatest joy comes when I know that I am in the center of the
will of God; that is, I am in the place that God intends for me,
and that I am obedient to whatever God is asking me to do, at any
given time.
Dear Lord, I am exceedingly thankful for Your love, and forever
grateful that You are the Great Shepherd, consistently willing
and able to lead me in ways of hope, kindness, purpose, and
truth. When I am with You, I am completely content and at peace.
Thank you, just the same, for the storms of life, which help me
to seek Your shelter, so that I am never far away from You.
Amen.
Brother Brian
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Subject: Christian Thought for the day
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears
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is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle
VERSE: But in all things we commend ourselves as
ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations,
in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments,
in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings;
by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness,
by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of
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ness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and
dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers,
and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying,
and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed;
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet
making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing
all things.
2 Corinthians 6:4-10
PRAYER: Dear Lord, you are my strength and my
comfort when life is difficult. Uphold me with
your mighty hand and fill me with your joy and
the peace that passes understanding. Amen.
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