It seems to me that there will always be something out of my reach. But sometimes my attitude implies I think I have to persuade God to come through! Recently He told me, “Ami, this is not a tug of war! We’re on the same side!”
Have you ever been pressured - either by a person or a circumstance - to make a quick decision? Often we live to regret those choices we make in haste. But what is the best attitude to make our decisions from?
God has always used ordinary people to do extraordinary things. But many times our own thinking about ourselves gets in the way of being used! Does our opinion of ourselves count?
Defeat. It may be part of everyone’s story from time to time, but it doesn’t ever feel like PART of the story — it feels like the END of the story. How can a story about a headless and handless idol tell us otherwise?
There is always going to be more that I can do. If I feel that I can do it, does that automatically mean that I should? How do I draw the line so that I don’t burn out, waste my time or feel that niggling guilt brought on by not being able to do everything?
Our busiest times can make it difficult to keep priorities straight. Often we think this is problem reserved for modernity, but we see this trap even in the times of the Old Testament! When did this happen and what was the result?