The Anxiety Series: Worrying about Tomorrow
What we worry about... bills... keeping our jobs... a promotion... keeping up with others... our kids... our relationships... the future... These concerns are things we cannot control... today's paper (The Ledger) displays flumes of volcanic ash bringing Europe's airports to a halt... farmworkers hit the streets of Lakeland in protests... suicide bombers kill 41 people in Pakistan... where is God???
David, the warrior turned fugitive, found out that the king of Israel was dead... no ruler in the kingdom... David was promised to be king one day... but had found himself in the wilderness.. running for years... Where was God? what now?
When our future seems unclear... look for God in the haze... we are a nation who has boxed God into a church building... we leave Him out of almost every portion of our life... anytime God is brought up, we quickly dismiss Him because reality and faith are a misnomer among the relevant... People may try to approach us with with a Bible verse or a spiritual truth and we are offended... because we are unteachable... we are too proud to be preached at...
This morning at 10am... i was awakened by banging on my door... an older man could be seen through the peep hole... i opened the door and listend to a stranger quote Bible verses and ask me about God's futuristic kingdom... It's a saturday morning... yard sales, great fishing weather, sleeping in, and relaxation are tempting alternatives but this man (a latter day saint) is beating the streets in 2010... taking the time to witness to a woman who probably loves the Lord as much as he does..
I never interupted Him... i thought of all the doors that probably were slammed in his face... and I loved the fact that this man had the boldness... greater than mine to stand before me with a message... we should never be to "great" to learn... we must never slam to door on a "truth sayer"... in a world of uncertainty, stress, anxiety... may we have the fortitude to open our door to a stranger... resolve conflict instead of stir it... and embrace the grace that we cannot control... only love, be loved, and place our future in the omnipotent hands of a Savior...
David, the warrior turned fugitive, found out that the king of Israel was dead... no ruler in the kingdom... David was promised to be king one day... but had found himself in the wilderness.. running for years... Where was God? what now?
When our future seems unclear... look for God in the haze... we are a nation who has boxed God into a church building... we leave Him out of almost every portion of our life... anytime God is brought up, we quickly dismiss Him because reality and faith are a misnomer among the relevant... People may try to approach us with with a Bible verse or a spiritual truth and we are offended... because we are unteachable... we are too proud to be preached at...
This morning at 10am... i was awakened by banging on my door... an older man could be seen through the peep hole... i opened the door and listend to a stranger quote Bible verses and ask me about God's futuristic kingdom... It's a saturday morning... yard sales, great fishing weather, sleeping in, and relaxation are tempting alternatives but this man (a latter day saint) is beating the streets in 2010... taking the time to witness to a woman who probably loves the Lord as much as he does..
I never interupted Him... i thought of all the doors that probably were slammed in his face... and I loved the fact that this man had the boldness... greater than mine to stand before me with a message... we should never be to "great" to learn... we must never slam to door on a "truth sayer"... in a world of uncertainty, stress, anxiety... may we have the fortitude to open our door to a stranger... resolve conflict instead of stir it... and embrace the grace that we cannot control... only love, be loved, and place our future in the omnipotent hands of a Savior...
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