Thought for the Day
September 8, 2008
Thought for the Day

Work, plan, save and play as if you were to live 100 years; pray and walk with Jesus as if you were to die tomorrow.  Living this way produces a worry free life. (Benjamin Franklin, adapted)
God's Living Word

  Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.  (James 4:13-17, NIV).
Life offers us so many great blessings and opportunities to experience happiness, joy and a attitude that makes every day an adventure.  But, so often we allow worry to rob us of the great blessings of life.  In his book "Come Thirsty", Mac Lucado wrote:

"Look around you.  You have reason to worry.  The sun blast cancer-causing rays.  Air vents blow lung-clotting molds.  Potato chips have too many carbs.  Vegetables, too any toxins.  And do they have to call an airport a terminal?..."

"Some of us have postgraduate degrees from the University of Anxiety.  We go to sleep worried that we won't wake up; we wake up worried that we didn't sleep.  We worry that someone will discover that lettuce was fattening all along.  The mother of one teenager bemoaned\,  'My daughter doesn't tell me anything.  I'm a nervous wreck.'  Another mother replied, 'My daughter tells me everything.  I'm a nervous wreck.'  Wouldn't you love to stop worrying?  Could you use a strong shelter from life's harsh elements?"

"God offers you just that:  the possibility of a worry-free life.  Not just less worry, but no worry."

"Do not worry about anything, but pray and ask God for everything you need." (Philippians 4:6).

Have a great day with Jesus and Be There!
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