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As you
woke up this morning and began to make the choices that would shape
your day, did you choose the following thoughts, “Oh, what a beautiful
morning, God’s morning.
And, oh how I am going to enjoy my breakfast, and my Sunday paper, and later on, worshiping with my fellow Christians. And this afternoon, I’ll go for a walk or sit on the back porch and listen to the birds sing, and…”
Or did you have a different set of thoughts that would shape your day? “I feel miserable and when I finish reading the newspaper I will feel even worse. Later on that guy at work will drive me crazy like he always does.
And I would take a walk except for all those crazy dogs who do nothing but bark at me and scare me to death, and…”
Some people spend their time
running from job to job, friend to friend, church to church and
community to community looking for the proverbial rainbow… with a pick axe - picking and axing their complaining way toward their own private disaster area.
And to what purpose?
It will date you, of course, but do you remember the cartoonist Al Capp and his cartoon strip Li’l Abner? Remember the character named Joe Pssst who carried around his own little rain cloud wherever he went? Unfortunately,
as the clock goes tick, tick, tick too many folk wake up each day with
their their own little rain cloud – their soul full of doubts, their
heart full of hate and their mind full of gripes.
The Shakespeare syndrome I call it. Remember Hamlet? He
must have been a jolly companion to have around all day since the best
description of life he could come up with was that it was, “stale, flat
and unprofitable.”
Do you
remember, when you still quite young, how you learned that by focusing
the rays of the sun through a magnifying glass you could burn a hole
through a leaf, or etch your initials on the side of a tree? Well, that is why it is so important to meet God in the morning and carry Him with you through the day. It
is a holy habit that can help you to bring all your scattered ethics
into focus, to pinpoint your decisions with heavenly meaning, and give
proper direction to your deeds. In short, pray “God, help me” at breakfast so you will be able to pray “God, thank you,” at dinner.
Several decades ago, a
scientific survey at the University of Wisconsin revealed that
professors who had been teaching for 20 years were no better than some
teaching only two or three years. But those who, every few years returned to college for refresher courses and to study new techniques, improved. Those who didn’t just stagnated. That’s why it is so important to put God on your calendar and keep Him there. Even
a man or woman “born again” needs a daily rebirth, a daily
re-evaluation of habits, a daily upgrading, a daily analysis of
yesterday’s happenings. We can change for the better but not if we keep
tripping over the same old errors. Let me say that again - We can change for the better but not if we keep tripping over the same old errors.
THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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A Quote FROM Rev. Wyrick’s 9TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN”
Into this fray, a political Lincoln, a military Lincoln and a spiritual Lincoln moved toward monumental decisions.
Struggling for truth, sometimes befuddled by reality, this man who knew
his Bible as well as some preachers would often be asked if he thought
God was on the side of the North.
His reply always remained the same. “My concern is not whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be on God’s side.”9 It would be difficult to place too much emphasis on the spiritual undergirdings he brought to every decision.
This child of the wilderness had had no city lights to mute the stars or compete with moonlight. He had watched his own growing, side by side with all the other growing things in field and forest. It seemed natural to him to ponder that human life must be more of mind, and soul a reality.
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