Posted on 05/01/2014 2:20:59 PM PDT by OneVike
In America today, it’s almost impossible for men not to worry. After all, 102 million Americans are unemployed while another 10 million are just a paycheck away from being jobless.
World events, like Russia invading the Ukraine to steal the Crimean peninsula (which many believe is a precursor to World War Three); news reports of natural disasters all across the planet; the deadly Ebola virus spreading throughout West Africa; the disappearance of the Malaysian airliner with 239 passengers on board; the constant intrusion into our private lives by an administration bent on reshaping the American dream as we once knew it; and now we have a bloody lunar eclipse that many are convinced is the beginning of the end for the world, don’t ease our worries.
Worry isn’t something that only happens when times are rough and scary, because long before 9/11, men had plenty to worry about. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich and famous or down and out, millions of men are one heart attack away from pushing up daises.
But as bad as things are today, Americans still live in the most powerfully affluent society in the world. Never before have so many of the poorest people of a country suffered from obesity. In the United States, the poor own cars, cell phones, computers, televisions, and stereos. They have money in the bank, and still the government supplies them free food and a place to live. In study after study, statistics tell the same story, whether rich or poor, Americans are fat and out of shape.
Even if a person finds it difficult to get help from the hundreds of social justice programs, there are web sites teaching the poor and homeless how to properly dumpster dive. These sites cover almost every large city to help direct a person to the dumpsters with the best
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AMEN!
Its easy to write commentary like that when you’re in the captain’s quarter of the ship. Its another thing to write it when you’re on deck in the middle of the storm. Personal experience speaking here.
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If you knew my story you would understand that I’m on the deck, holding a rope for dear life as I secure the precious cargo of my world together.
NO, I am not in any comfortable cabin giving orders to anyone.
However, if you need to talk, PM me. I’m all ears my Friend.
God showed me one day that my worrying was because I was a control freak and felt like I wasn’t in control.
And basically, I was a control freak because I wanted to control how the situations came out and didn’t trust that if anyone else were in charge, it would happen *right*.
Including God.
He showed me that my controlling tendencies were because I wasn’t trusting HIM to provide as He said He would and to work out all things for good.
Who better to trust to control things? Me, who doesn’t know beans about what’s going on around me or God who knows the beginning from the end, for all time and eternity?
And I didn’t trust Him to make the right decisions?
What a wake up call that was!
We dealt with that, confessed and repented, and I have peace now like I’ve never had before.
Very interesting.
“just a paycheck away from being jobless”
Well...yeah. If you lose (or quit) your job, you stop getting a paycheck. That’s kinda how that works. But the statement doesn’t really make any sort of point.
Amen sister.
I was the same when I used to worry the restaurant could never run without me. It was years ago, and I long ago gave up restaurant work.
I was so bad I would take my wife on a date. To the parking lot across from the restaurant to see how things were running when i was off and my supervisors were running things.
On vacation in Montana, I spent so much time on the phone checking in, that my wife made me end the trip early.
Yea, I too was a control freak. So much so I was a lousy person to be around. Almost cost me a relationship with the only woman who had ever given me a chance.
I too found myself on my knees asking Him to take it away, so I could live, and those around me could like me.
Life is so much better with Him in the driver seat. Now I can see the scenery and actually enjoy this world He created for us to enjoy.
A few years ago you had a good point. However the One in the WH has made things so difficult that it is a fact now.
Sadly, not everyone can pack up and head to Texas where jobs are plenty.
It’s an opening statement to set things up.
So lighten up Francis.
Without a real way to the pathway of faith, it is very hard to have that. The fhu.com has that pathway...one that the church has failed to deliver.
You don’t need any pathway but Christ.
You don’t need the Church to find Him. Just get on your knees and ask.
He is all around, everywhere. Just open your eyes and ask, and He will reveal Himself to you.
“If you knew my story”...
I don’t. Can you share it?
Wow. I actually have shared parts of it here with others, but not ever when asked. Let me think about it. I’ll tell you what, I did share something very telling about my childhood in a post. let me find it and I’ll share the link with you.
Here you go. It’s the original comment after the post on the thread. The pic is my family. I am the baby in my Mom’s arms on the porch.
I could add a lot, but not today. Other than to say, my wife is in a wheelchair from a car wreck we were in when we were dating. We had just been dating a Month when the wreck happened. We have been together for 28 years this October.
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Brother, I don’t know you from Adam, but I can tell you with authority that you are loved beyond all description.
One day soon the hurt, pain, and anguish of this world will pass and we who are in Him will be together forever!!!!
The human mind cannot contemplate this.
What a beautiful story!!!
Thank you brother. Yes, there will be no pain, no suffering, no anger, and no hate.
Thanks. I don’t suffer anymore, because he who suffered for me took it all away long ago.
Oh, I still kick at the goads from time to time when I allow my flesh to get in front, but that too passes.
Thanks, and the glory goes to God, through Christ.
God bless you and yours for your blessing to me.
Worry and fear are good motivators.
Problem is I don’t see a way out of the path we are on toward communism and how my kids will make out.
I am in my late 50’s and won’t be on this earth as long as they will. I am trying my hardest to prepare them for hard times. Guess we will see how things work out.
He already has...bur prayer is needed...the quiet kind.
> If you knew my story you would understand that I’m on the deck, holding a rope for dear life as I secure the precious cargo of my world together.
NO, I am not in any comfortable cabin giving orders to anyone.
However, if you need to talk, PM me. I’m all ears my Friend.
I wasn’t judging you. I was just stating that I have been both advisor and advisee and personal circumstances can make a huge difference on the stance and perspective (and confidence) you have at that moment. I’ve been on deck and bailing water for quite some time now looking for different means to change the situation. I have others depending on me and I don’t want to let them down. I have been on my knees a lot more this year than I ever have. I once knew prosperity and comfort and now worry each day (and many sleepless nights). Even with the Word in hand and faith It still wears you down (even though I know it says nit to worry in Many passages in the Bible). I’m just getting worn out and I know I should not grumble and complain because I am far better off than many others in the world but this is where I grew up and all I’ve ever known so there’s going to have to be some adjustments...
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