burdened<\/a>, and I will give you rest.\u00a0 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.\u00a0 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\nA famous quote from Helen Keller is \u201cI cried because I had not shoes until I met a man who had no feet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen life gives you lemons, make lemonade\u201d is a famous quote from Elbert Hubbard.<\/p>\n
I remember getting choked up when I heard Rocky Balboa say the following to his son \u201cLet me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth, but you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!\u00a0I’m always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You’re my son and you’re my blood. You’re the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life.\u201d<\/p>\n
These quotes are all fine and inspirational quotes that have inspired people. Helen Keller\u2019s quote tells us to be thankful for what we have.\u00a0 If God is who we are thanking it is a truly wonderful quote.\u00a0 Family, think about what could make our lives worse.\u00a0 No matter where our lives are at, think about what could make it worse.\u00a0 If we get a little list of all the things that could make our lives worse (not too long!) then stop and let\u2019s use that list as a list of blessings.\u00a0 Thank God that these have not befallen you.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t be angry with God.\u00a0 It serves no purpose, only harm.\u00a0 You will hear from a lot of people that we are \u201conly human\u201d and so it is okay to be angry at God and yell anger to God. Oh this, and a lot of other things are what Jesus died for, but that is by no means a reason to do them (Romans 6:1<\/b>).\u00a0 Family, it is true, we are only human.\u00a0 It is true that yelling at God does come from our human nature.\u00a0 But it is not true that giving into our fallen nature is a good thing.\u00a0 Nor is it an acceptable thing,\u00a0 It is something that comes from our human nature.\u00a0 Is our fallen, human nature, that God describes as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6<\/b>), really what we want to control our lives.\u00a0 Family, God described Job as \u201c\u2026My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil.\u201d Yet, even when Job, after having been beaten down by the devil, began to question God as to why He was going through what He was doing, God quickly, and strongly corrected Him. In response Job quickly repented of his sin of questioning, or accusing, God of wrong (Job 38-42<\/b>).\u00a0 In\u00a0V42:5-6<\/b>\u00a0Job confessed to God\u00a0\u201cI have\u00a0heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.\u00a0 6\u00a0Therefore I\u00a0abhor\u00a0myself, And repent in dust and ashes.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Anyone who tells us that it is okay to yell at God in anger is just wrong.\u00a0 It is never right and it is always a sin.\u00a0 Instead, we should call out to God for help.\u00a0 We should call out to God for strength.\u00a0 We should call out to God for deliverance.\u00a0 All these things are acceptable to God.\u00a0 We see that behind all these things are a reliance on Him.\u00a0 A reliance on Him is a confession of our inability to save ourselves and that only He is our Savior.\u00a0 Family, fully consider that self-reliance is putting ourselves on a throne that only God belongs in.\u00a0 God blesses those who trust in Him and not in self (Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 34:22, Psalm 118:8, Nahum 1:7, Jeremiah 17:7<\/b>).<\/p>\n
The quotes from Elbert Hubbard and Rocky Balboa are, like Helen Keller\u2019s quote, wonderful if they lead us to God.\u00a0 If they lead us to confidence and trust in self, then they lead us to a very fallible, unstable and unsafe place.<\/p>\n
Family, we are safest when our confidence is in the power of the Lord and not in our feeble and limited power.\u00a0 It is better to trust in the unlimited power and sure goodness of God.\u00a0 Trusting in self is filled with worries, but trusting in God brings us to peace.\u00a0 Jesus has asked us to bring all that worries us, all that wears us down, and to give these circumstances and thoughts to Him.\u00a0 He wants us to leave them with Him during the day and to not sneak back at night to take them back.\u00a0 We may be trying to \u201chelp\u201d God.\u00a0 God does not need help.\u00a0 We only hurt ourselves.\u00a0 Let\u2019s give all of our worries and concerns to God.\u00a0 Let\u2019s not live natural lives based on our fallen human nature, but rather live lives that are based on His supernatural Word and Omnipotent self.\u00a0 We want God solving our problems.\u00a0 So let us give our problems and concerns to Him and leave them there.\u00a0 Believing in Him and having done that, so shall our minds be at peace. God is good all the time and He loves that.\u00a0 Let that knowledge be inviolable in our minds and hearts let us then have peace and calm in our hearts.\u00a0 Praise our God!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n
Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n
Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ephesians 6:10\u00a0–\u00a0Finally, be strong in the Lord\u00a0and in his mighty power. 1 Peter 5:7\u00a0–\u00a0Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. Matthew 11:28-30\u00a0–\u00a0\u201cCome to me, all you who are weary and\u00a0burdened, and I will give you rest.\u00a0 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[1841,103,99,1849,101,94,2484,90,88,17,10],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-ephesians","tag-isaiah","tag-jeremiah","tag-job","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-nahum","tag-peter","tag-proverbs","tag-psalm","tag-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}