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ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY
Take these seeds of thought below
and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.
Would you lessen your anxiety?
Then don't embrace it. It may well be clawing at you persistently
trying to get a good hold...but fight it off with prayer...fight it off with
positive thinking...and when you have tried a dozen times and failed...go for a
13th try.
ONE A DAY BELOW
HE BELIEVED IN GOD...(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)
Wyrick’s Writings.
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It is a simple statement that really is the story of many lives, “He believed in God as gentlemen believe.”
It is a timeless attitude. Read Elijah if you have any doubts, “How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal be God, then follow him.”
The people of this time of Elijah answered him not a word.
They couldn’t.
They didn’t have anything they could say.
They knew they had a conventional religion.
They knew their responsive readings backward and forwards.
They could chant their chants hum their hymns and pray their prayers, but deep down inside they knew all they had was religion…
And what they didn’t have was God.
What is religion anyway?
The Bible doesn’t talk about religion. In fact it hardly uses the word.
The Bible talks about God.
God’s will, God’s way, God’s law, God’s love, God’s Forgiveness.
Religion is simply a term to describe something to which we give ourselves.
If Elijah were to speak today perhaps he might say, “If the Lord be God, follow him; but if every other man’s way of doing be God, if convention be God, if tradition be God, then study all the ways of man, learn how your neighbor acts and what he says, and what is accepted and acceptable, and give yourself for the rest of your life to being like every other man.
You’ll be a jolly good fellow and loved by all.”
It is easier to play at religion than to know God…
Knowing God requires dedication…knowing how to find one’s way to church requires only a reasonably sense of direction.
Balzac said the opening words you read, “He believed in God as gentlemen believe.”
A belief of dignified restraint.
A belief that everything has its place, even God.
“So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope confidently in Him) forever; for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].”
It is a timeless attitude. Read Elijah if you have any doubts, “How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal be God, then follow him.”
The people of this time of Elijah answered him not a word.
They couldn’t.
They didn’t have anything they could say.
They knew they had a conventional religion.
They knew their responsive readings backward and forwards.
They could chant their chants hum their hymns and pray their prayers, but deep down inside they knew all they had was religion…
And what they didn’t have was God.
What is religion anyway?
The Bible doesn’t talk about religion. In fact it hardly uses the word.
The Bible talks about God.
God’s will, God’s way, God’s law, God’s love, God’s Forgiveness.
Religion is simply a term to describe something to which we give ourselves.
If Elijah were to speak today perhaps he might say, “If the Lord be God, follow him; but if every other man’s way of doing be God, if convention be God, if tradition be God, then study all the ways of man, learn how your neighbor acts and what he says, and what is accepted and acceptable, and give yourself for the rest of your life to being like every other man.
You’ll be a jolly good fellow and loved by all.”
It is easier to play at religion than to know God…
Knowing God requires dedication…knowing how to find one’s way to church requires only a reasonably sense of direction.
Balzac said the opening words you read, “He believed in God as gentlemen believe.”
A belief of dignified restraint.
A belief that everything has its place, even God.
“So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope confidently in Him) forever; for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].”
Isaiah 26: 4
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