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Do we have to fail to grow closer to Christ

Submitted by pip-4 on October 21, 2010 - 1:18am

Hello. I have recently tried being more outgoing and started training again for marathon running and giving the outcome completely to GOD. The thing is, is that I have an ongoing injury since childhood that usually limits my performance. I find that I get so far with training and then my ankle injury becomes a problem again limiting what I can do, so I never end up finishing what I started and completing the goal I had set myself.

A 12 Point Cure for Complaining

Complaining is unbecoming of the true Christian and yet we are proficient at it. The cure is found in these verses. In Christ we are never hopeless or forsaken. Every trial has meaning. Meditate on this cure in order to change both your language and your heart.

1. GOD COMMANDS ME NEVER TO COMPLAIN.
Do all things without complaining and disputing. Philippians 2:14

2. GOD COMMANDS ME TO GIVE THANKS IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE.
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18

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The Sluggard Says, There Is a Lion Outside! I Shall Be Slain

A Meditation
A Meditation

Proverbs 22:13

This is not what I expected the proverb to say. I would have expected it to say "The coward says, 'There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!'" But it says, "sluggard," not "coward." So the controlling emotion here is laziness, not fear. But what does laziness have to do with the danger of a lion in the street? We don't say, "This man is too lazy to go do his work because there is a lion outside. The presence of a lion does not produce laziness, it produces fear. So what's the point of the proverb?

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