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In today’s devotional of My Utmost for His Highestby Oswald Chambers, he uses the phrase “spiritually distracted”. I think that accurately describes how I often feel. It’s not hard to be distracted spiritually. This world is full of things to take one’s mind off of God. On Saturday, I got cable. We had shut it off [...] No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne. – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest As one of my daily devotionals, this sentence spoke to me. My constant effort is to put God first, both in my thoughts and when considering my actions. But [...] Sin…is always a substitute got legitimate suffering. It is an attempt to obtain the pleasure that does not rightfully belong to me or evade the pain that does…Sooner or later, you have to turn and face the pain that makes the temptation so attractive. Sooner or later, you have to run to God. When I look, [...] Okay, it’s been two months since I wrote on this blog. If I had written every time I thought about writing, I would have written 40 times. Instead I was busy, tired, overwhelmed – basically, struggling. Great things happened in the last two months, but they were often overshadowed by bitter, painful feelings. Such is [...] I’ve got to stop thinking “I need to get away from it all”. That’s the thinking that leads me to follow the Devil’s temptations and distract myself from God and His purpose for me. I need to try to see God in it all. Brother Lawrence described doing everything for God “with an even, uninterrupted composure and tranquility [...] I found this free floating note card in a box of papers and things. Anita has written on it in black Sharpie: Fear not the future; This one was something of a mystery to me – not what it meant but what it meant to Anita and in what context. A Google search [...]
In Anita’s book The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith, Anita underlined this paragraph in chapter six, “Difficulties concerning faith”. You have trusted Him in a few things, and He has not failed you. Trust Him now for everything, and see if He does not do for you exceeding abundantly, [...] Inside the front cover of Anita’s book Secrets in the Dark by Frederick Buechner, she wrote some notes. This one jumped out at me this morning: 11/27/06 You have only one decision to make: to follow God or not. If you choose to follow God, you cannot fail. Your life is your ministry. It’s no secret and no [...] The most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people Going through a stack of note cards, this one jumped out at me. Turns out this is part of a quote from Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich (1937). Here’s [...] (I just found this on Anita’s computer dated 4/26/09. I’m sure she was reading this to reinforce her lessons on acceptance. However, it is from an article about overcoming grief – link at the bottom. Reading this made me shiver.) 2) ACCEPT THE SITUATION |
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