Damage Control!

Mere mortals can do a lot of of damage. They can speak falsely, commit unloving acts, abuse and abandon us both physically and emotionally, generate circumstances with adverse consequences, physically injure us, and even kill us.

Many battle courageously to heal deep wounds inflicted by mere mortals. The healing process is greatly enhanced if we choose to walk with God. If we choose to walk with God, we abandon powerlessness. We are no longer alone. We have an advocate. He is there for us. We can take our hurts, bad feelings, and miserable experiences and place them in the outstretched hands of our all-knowing, all-loving God. Issues of fairness and justice can be left to him. God can assure our souls will be eternally safe. Mere mortals will more than meet their match.

A Prayer begins . . .

Our Father in heaven, we know the damage mere mortals can do. It is frightening. We seek refuge in you. We give you our hurts, bad feelings and miserable experiences. Help us deal with them. Show us how to trust in you completely, secure our eternal future, and go forward unafraid.

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All Religions Do Not Point To God

Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods, the Absolute Claims of the Christian Message, Word Publishing, 2000, pp. 6, 7.   SoAmazing.com

"You hear it a thousand times and more growing up in the East--'We all come through different routes and end up in the same place.' But I say to you, God is not a place or an experience or a feeling. Pluralistic cultures are beguiled by the cosmetically courteous idea that sincerity or privilege of birth is all that counts and the truth is subject to the beholder. In no other discipline of life can one be so naive as to claim inherited belief or insistent belief as the sole determiner of truth. Why then, do we make the catastrophic error of thinking that all religions are right and that it does not matter whether the claims they make are objectively true?'

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.

Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive."

SoAmazing Review: Ravi Zacharias supplies facts and arguments to demonstrate that the world's religions do not all point to God and are, at their core, exclusive. Jesus Among Other Gods is illuminating.

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What! Me Worry?

Henri J. M. Nouwen, Making All Things New, an Invitation to the Spiritual Life, Harper San Francisco, 1981, pp. 14, 15.
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"At the point of departure, I have chosen Jesus' words 'Do not worry.' Worrying has become such a part and parcel of our daily life that a life without worries seems not only impossible, but even undesirable. We have a suspicion that to be carefree is unrealistic and--worse--dangerous. Our worries motivate us to work hard, to prepare ourselves for the future, and to arm ouselves against impending threats. Yet Jesus says, 'Do not worry; do not say, 'What are we to eat? What are we to drink? How are we to be clothed?' . . . Your heavenly father knows you need them all. Set your hearts on his kingdom first . . . and all these other things will be given you as well.' With this radical and 'unrealistic' counsel, Jesus points to the possibility of a life without worries, a life in which all things are being made new. Since I hope to describe the spiritual life in which the Spirit of God can recreate us as truly free people, I have called this book Making All things New."

SoAmazing Review: Henri Nouwen wrote more than forty books. All of his books that I have read, including this one, are characterized by Nouwen's gentle spirit and earnest wish to plainly present spiritual truths. He has succeeded.

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