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We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2008. Our children helped us celebrate with an all expense paid all arranged vacation In Hawaii.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
We live by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7
Some people walk around, and it's almost as though they have a black cloud following them. If they receive a bad report from the doctor, they've practically planned their own funeral by the end of the day. If their business has been a little slow, they are certain they'll be the first one to get laid off. Rather than discipline their thought life and do what the Scripture says, they panic and always find themselves defeated,failing, and struggling.
It is not honoring to God to go around with a nagging, negative feeling, always thinking that something is wrong. You may not even know why you do it, but you tend to think that things are never going to work out well for you. That attitude will keep you from believing for the good things of God. Live in faith, not in fear.
(From Your Best Life Begins Each Morning--Devotions to Start Every Day of the Year by Joel Osteen.)
7 comments:
Amen! God's will is for us to be joyful no matter what circumstances we are facing. Great thought. Have a great weekend to you and sister Charlotte. God bless.
Clif,
I have been reading that the way to counteract these is to keep a gratitude journal and each morning upon waking you have to write a list of all the things that God has blessed you with in that last 24 hours.
Positive is the total and complete opposite of negative right???
Love and Hugs ~ Kat
This is so good...faith is everything and all that we need to face tomorrow, to deal with living in a world full of fallen people, including ourselves... great post!
Mary
Very good, amen.
That is good advice. I sometimes don't even realize what or why I am thinking something--I often do have nagging negitive type thoughts lately--I have been going through a weird time...kind of after mid-life season. It is a different season of life and I am not adjusting to it very quickly!! I have friends and family members going through rough times and I feel a bit out of kilter ;-)
Thank you for those encouraging thoughts. We should hold our heads up because we believe in an awesome glorious God.
How true!
Clif how many books do you read in a week? I am amazed at your insightful posts.
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