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To: oldteen
Good morning, Teenie!

I've got a beautiful feeling, everything's going my way!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
434 posted on 04/04/2011 6:53:52 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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An Attached Fuel Hose
April 4, 2011

Felipe Massa of Brazil should have won the Formula One Grand Prix in Singapore in September 2008. But as he drove off from a refueling stop while in the lead, the fuel hose was still attached. By the time his team removed the hose, he had lost so much time that he finished 13th.

The apostle Paul warned Timothy of another kind of attachment that would cause him defeat—“the affairs of this life” (2 Tim. 2:4). He urged Timothy not to let anything slow him down or distract him from the cause of his Lord and Master.

There are many attractive things in our world that are so easy to get entangled with—hobbies, sports, TV, computer games. These may start off as “refueling” activities, but later they can take up so much of our time and thought that they interfere with the purpose for which God created us: to share the good news of Christ, serve Him with our gifts, and bring glory to Him.

Paul told Timothy why he ought not be entangled with this world’s affairs: So that he could “please Him” (v.4). If your desire is to please the Lord Jesus, you will want to stay untangled from the world. As John reminds us, “The world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever” (1 John 2:17).

 

For Further Study
If you have questions about your life’s purpose in this
world, read online Why In The World Am I Here?
at www.discoveryseries.org/q0502

 

Although we live in this world,
we must declare our allegiance to heaven.

Read: 2 Timothy 2:1-7

No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life. —2 Timothy 2:4
Bible in a year:
Ruth 1-4; Luke 8:1-25


435 posted on 04/04/2011 6:58:11 AM PDT by The Mayor (Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty!)
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To: ConorMacNessa
Good morning, Conor!

I've got a beautiful feeling, everything's going my way!

I sure hope so! :)

Are you feeling any better today?

436 posted on 04/04/2011 7:07:09 AM PDT by oldteen
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