BBD 07.27.17 Can't Cope With That (Classic)

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Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

27 July 2017

Can’t
Cope With That

My soul
clings to the dust; revive me according to Your word. My soul melts from
heaviness; strengthen me according to Your word. - Psalm 119:25; 28 NKJV.

Unless Your law had been my delight (If your
law had not been my delight - NIV), I would then have perished in my
affliction. I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have given me
life. - Psalm 119:92-93 NKJV.

Steven Slater is the latest to have “lost it” being unable to cope with
a very stressful situation as a JetBlue flight attendant. (According to a Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBlue_flight_attendant_incident
NONE OF SLATER’S STATEMENTS WERE CORROBORATED BY OTHER PASSENGERS. It was later
found by investigators that Slater was drunk and suffering from mental
problems. A later mental health evaluation revealed he had a clinical mental
disorder and alcohol abuse problem.)

Slater claimed
he tried to mediate a dispute between two women passengers prior to the flight
departing Pittsburgh. The two women he claimed were arguing over space in the
overhead storage area, and Steven was hit in the head accidentally during that
attempt at a peaceful intervention. One of the women refused to stay seated as
requested, and that was when Steven was struck by the luggage.

Upon the
plane landing in New York and prior to deplaning, Slater claimed there was an
additional dispute involving one of the two women and him. The woman was upset
that the luggage that she was forced to gate-check would not be immediately
available and verbally attacked Steven. After this Steven said a
few choice words to the woman over the intercom ending with “I've had
it.” He then grabbed two beers, and deployed the emergency chute
leaving the plane, and is now facing several criminal charges with bail set at
$2500 (2017
update: Slater ended up serving a year of probation.). A
defense attorney stated at an arraignment that Slater was under stress because
of his mother's lung cancer. At last count a Facebook page set up in his honor
already had 30,857 likes (Searching
today in 2017 could not find the page, although he does have a facebook profile
with the last post in 2010).

Most of us know what it is like to “lose it” although probably not in
such a dramatic and public way as did Steven Slater. With Steven, you can see
the progression of stress. Stress builds up with layer upon additional layer of
emotional pressure coming upon a person. Steven was already under stress just
because he works in stressful job in a stressful environment. In addition, his
mother was seriously ill. All of this stressful pressure was all piled on top
of him until he reached his breaking point. His breaking point came when he had
to handle what he somehow; in his drunken and mentally confused state,
perceived as a verbally abusive, and rule breaking passenger.

What do you do when you just cannot cope anymore with a situation? My favorite
is to cry out “Lord help me!” However, the best way to handle
stressful situations and living a stressful life is not to wait until you are
at your breaking point to ask the Lord for help. The Psalmist gives us some
indications in Psalm 119 as to how he could cope with living on the
edge through very difficult times. Psalm 119 is the
longest psalm, and it is a hymn of praise magnifying the Word of God. The
Psalmist says that the Law of God, the Word of God was his
delight and if that had not been true “I would then have perished
in my affliction.”

If you delight in something what do you do? You want to be around it, you want
to study it, you want to meditate upon it, and you never want to forget about
it, because you love it. That is what was going on in the life of the Psalmist.
That is why he was able to stand up under the pressure cooker of a life that he
lived and stay faithful to God.

So, long before you arrive at the point in life that you “lose it,” that
you “can't cope with something” make the Word of God your
delight. Every day immerse yourself to the extent that you can in the Words of
God. Meditate upon the Word of God, study
it, memorize it, read it, listen to it, and you will discover that you have the
supernatural strength you need to cope with whatever life brings your way.

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
19 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 12,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help for
Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brandy, Brad,
Damon D. & wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Brent Baker, Lexi McCalip (her
last scan was clear!), Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please also pray for Aleesha
McMillan and Bal Krishna Pokharel (A pastor in Nepal with health issues).

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: www.paypal.me/EdWrather

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

27 July 2017

Can’t
Cope With That

My soul
clings to the dust; revive me according to Your word. My soul melts from
heaviness; strengthen me according to Your word. - Psalm 119:25; 28 NKJV.

Unless Your law had been my delight (If your
law had not been my delight - NIV), I would then have perished in my
affliction. I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have given me
life. - Psalm 119:92-93 NKJV.

Steven Slater is the latest to have “lost it” being unable to cope with
a very stressful situation as a JetBlue flight attendant. (According to a Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBlue_flight_attendant_incident
NONE OF SLATER’S STATEMENTS WERE CORROBORATED BY OTHER PASSENGERS. It was later
found by investigators that Slater was drunk and suffering from mental
problems. A later mental health evaluation revealed he had a clinical mental
disorder and alcohol abuse problem.)

Slater claimed
he tried to mediate a dispute between two women passengers prior to the flight
departing Pittsburgh. The two women he claimed were arguing over space in the
overhead storage area, and Steven was hit in the head accidentally during that
attempt at a peaceful intervention. One of the women refused to stay seated as
requested, and that was when Steven was struck by the luggage.

Upon the
plane landing in New York and prior to deplaning, Slater claimed there was an
additional dispute involving one of the two women and him. The woman was upset
that the luggage that she was forced to gate-check would not be immediately
available and verbally attacked Steven. After this Steven said a
few choice words to the woman over the intercom ending with “I've had
it.” He then grabbed two beers, and deployed the emergency chute
leaving the plane, and is now facing several criminal charges with bail set at
$2500 (2017
update: Slater ended up serving a year of probation.). A
defense attorney stated at an arraignment that Slater was under stress because
of his mother's lung cancer. At last count a Facebook page set up in his honor
already had 30,857 likes (Searching
today in 2017 could not find the page, although he does have a facebook profile
with the last post in 2010).

Most of us know what it is like to “lose it” although probably not in
such a dramatic and public way as did Steven Slater. With Steven, you can see
the progression of stress. Stress builds up with layer upon additional layer of
emotional pressure coming upon a person. Steven was already under stress just
because he works in stressful job in a stressful environment. In addition, his
mother was seriously ill. All of this stressful pressure was all piled on top
of him until he reached his breaking point. His breaking point came when he had
to handle what he somehow; in his drunken and mentally confused state,
perceived as a verbally abusive, and rule breaking passenger.

What do you do when you just cannot cope anymore with a situation? My favorite
is to cry out “Lord help me!” However, the best way to handle
stressful situations and living a stressful life is not to wait until you are
at your breaking point to ask the Lord for help. The Psalmist gives us some
indications in Psalm 119 as to how he could cope with living on the
edge through very difficult times. Psalm 119 is the
longest psalm, and it is a hymn of praise magnifying the Word of God. The
Psalmist says that the Law of God, the Word of God was his
delight and if that had not been true “I would then have perished
in my affliction.”

If you delight in something what do you do? You want to be around it, you want
to study it, you want to meditate upon it, and you never want to forget about
it, because you love it. That is what was going on in the life of the Psalmist.
That is why he was able to stand up under the pressure cooker of a life that he
lived and stay faithful to God.

So, long before you arrive at the point in life that you “lose it,” that
you “can't cope with something” make the Word of God your
delight. Every day immerse yourself to the extent that you can in the Words of
God. Meditate upon the Word of God, study
it, memorize it, read it, listen to it, and you will discover that you have the
supernatural strength you need to cope with whatever life brings your way.

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
19 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 12,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help for
Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brandy, Brad,
Damon D. & wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Brent Baker, Lexi McCalip (her
last scan was clear!), Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please also pray for Aleesha
McMillan and Bal Krishna Pokharel (A pastor in Nepal with health issues).

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: http://www.paypal.me/EdWrather

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

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sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
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