Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

"For without me ye can -- do nothing."

Doctor: "I have good news and bad news."
Patient: "What's the good news?"
Doctor: "You have 24-hours to live."
Patient: "What's the bad news?"
Doctor: “I couldn't reach you yesterday."
     It's easy to complain about your circumstances. It becomes difficult to preserve a positive outlook on life in a world of unemployment, high crime rates, and rising gas prices. Just this past week, I struggled with keeping a positive attitude.
     Several employees' names went missing from our division's database; meaning, no pay. Alright I confess! I deleted the names, accidentally of course. Calls poured in one-by-one; upset over the removal of their names. To make matters worse, two other records appeared in the place of the recovered files. I tried to explain to my boss how the error occurred, but she was not hearing it. What a catastrophe!
      When I think about Jesus dying on the cross and all he endured, my stuff is small compared to the BIG stuff Jesus faced. Jesus did the heavy lifting; all I have to do is live a quiet life, mind my own business, and influence others positively (1 Thes 4:11-12). Are you sweating BIG obstacles in your life? Look, Jesus suffering makes your struggles look like a grain of sand.

Don't sweat the BIG stuff. Pray about it! God is in control…

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Understanding It Better By and By

Funny how life has a way of showing you what you’re made of. When adversity hits, what you say you wouldn't do becomes easier to do. When the rubber meets the road, yes! you do the unthinkable. Let's say you have a house fire and on the second floor is your baby and mom. You can only save one, which would it be? I've heard many say they would grab the baby since mom has been around a long time. I couldn't say. I'm not in that situation right now. There's no way to know what to do until tragedy hits. Some can handle atrocities, whereas; other have no clue how to maneuver suffering nor know why hardship occurs. Stop trying to figure out why hardships happens--only the Father knows. He won't have you guessing long. The underlining reason at the end of your trials gives away the mystery. Experiencing hardship isn't fun but you will come out with more insight than ever before....

Get Ready

W hen the Children of God came to the Red Sea, no doubt their motivation levels were very low. They had Pharaoh and his army behind them, mountains on the sides of them and the Red Sea ahead of them. There seemed to be no way out of this saga. A movie where the villain has the good person cornered. You wonder how they were going to get out of it. God's people waited 450 years to be released from Egypt and right at their blessing (crossing the Red Sea), the God's Children cries out to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, has thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Wherefore has thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than we should die in the wilderness." Moses answers the people by saying, "Fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation ...

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