A Rat in the Corner of Life
Maybe you have a worry related to some simple, daily problem that eats away at your peace, like a rat in the corner of your life. It just gnaws and gnaws and gnaws.
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
Maybe you have a worry related to some simple, daily problem that eats away at your peace, like a rat in the corner of your life. It just gnaws and gnaws and gnaws.
We love something we can control—something we can get our arms around. Yet the closer we walk with the Lord, the less control we have over our own lives, and the more we must abandon to Him.
In leisure our minds are liberated from the immediate, the necessary. As we incorporate leisure into the mainstream of our world, we gain perspective.
"The end of a matter is better than its beginning." That makes sense, doesn't it?
Most people are prone to say, "God helps those who help themselves." People think that despicable saying comes from the Bible, but it doesn't.
If we'll slow down the hurry-up lifestyle for a moment and pause to catch our breath, we'll realize the need to call a halt to our throw-away culture.
Anybody can accept a reward graciously, and many people can even take their punishment patiently when they have done something wrong. But how many people are equipped to handle mistreatment after they've done right?
What's in the past? Only two things: great attainments and accomplishments that could either make us proud by reliving them or indifferent by resting on them...or failures and defeats that cannot help but arouse feelings of guilt and shame.
In the light of truth, you and I are able to see both truth and lie, both light and darkness—that which is simple, pure, and clear and that which is deceptive....
Our problem isn't that we've failed. Our problem is that we haven't failed enough. We haven't been brought low enough to learn what God wants us to learn....