I once focused only on the big important things in life and skipped the small stuff and lost my job as a result.
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What?! Beer is part of the small unimportant stuff??? Is he kidding me?
Always give bad advice. Most people won’t follow it anyway. And if they do, they deserve everything they get.
What a wonderful article. Thanks for posting.
I’ve heard this story before.
But not the beer part. Great ending. Thanks.
Ahh.... now I know why my neighbors house looks the way it does. And I think he is some kind of college professor.
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Great lesson. Wasted a couple of beers, though.
good stuff
Or there’s... “Seek ye the kingdom of heaven first”...
... If we are about the Lord’s business, He will always be about our business...
Here is the full Word on priorities:
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
YOUR TREASURE IS WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
ONE CANNOT SERVE BOTH GOD AND MONEY: IT’S IMPOSSIBLE
24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
DO NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT THE THINGS OF LIFE
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
YOU HAVE MUCH MORE VALUE THAN THE BIRDS OF THE AIR!
26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
WORRY NOT
27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD...
28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,
29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
DON’T FRET ABOUT FOOD/CLOTHES: TRUST GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU NEED
31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
GOD ISN’T STINGY, BTW
32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
BE YE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING
34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
He could have added water, then dissolved even more into that!