A Blessing For Evil!

Put this revolutionary resolution at the top of your list. Pay back evil with good. Speak kindly to those who insult you. Bless those who take advantage of you. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, act lovingly in a selfish world and experience exhilarating joy. This year, pay back evil with good.

A Prayer begins . . .

Heavenly Father, we honor your name. It is a name above every name! We want desperately to reflect in our lives, your revoluntary love. Help us pay back evil with a blessing!

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One Good Choice Away

Max Lucado, He Chose the Nails, Word Publishing, 2000, p. 56.    SoAmazing.com

Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 0849917581
Keywords: thief, repented, mistakes, wrong crowd, waste, eternity, fruit, good choice, Jesus, pray, prayed, save, mocked, loved, Word Publishing, Lucado, Max Lucado

"Think about the thief who repented. Though we know little about him, we know this: He made some bad mistakes in life. He chose the wrong crowd, the wrong morals, the wrong behavior. But would you consider his life a waste? Is he spending eternity reaping the fruit of all the bad choices he made? No, just the opposite. He is enjoying the fruit of the one good choice he made. In the end all his bad choices were redeemed by a solitary good one.

You've made some bad choices in life, haven't you? You've chosen the wrong friends, maybe the wrong career, even the wrong spouse. You look back over your life and say, 'If only . . . if only I could make up for those bad choices.' You can. One good choice for eternity offsets a thousand bad ones on earth.

The choice is yours.

How can two brothers be born of the same mother, grow up in the same home, and one choose life and other choose death? I don't know, but they do.

How could two men see the same Jesus and one choose to mock him and the other choose to pray to him? I don't know, but they did.

And when one prayed, Jesus loved him enough to save him. And when the other mocked, Jesus loved him enough to let him.

He allowed him the choice.

He does the same for you."

SoAmazing Review: In He Chose the Nails, Max Lucado reveals how Jesus' good choice to choose the nails, made our one good choice an option.

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Pain Is His Megaphone

C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000, p.81.
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Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 0060652969
Keywords: sins, stupidities, pleasure, pain, God, shouts, truth, suffer,

"We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities; and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating, will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. A bad man, happy, is a man without the least inkling that his actions do not 'answer,' that they are not in accord with the laws of the universe.

A perception of this truth lies at the back of the universal human feeling that bad men ought to suffer. It is no use turning up our noses at this feeling, as if it were wholly base. On its mildest level it appeals to everyone's sense of justice. Once when my brother and I, as very small boys, were drawing pictures at the same table, I jerked his elbow and caused him to make an irrelevant line across the middle of his work; the matter was amicably settled by my allowing him to draw a line of equal length across mine. That is, I was 'put in his place,' made to see my negligence from the other end."

SoAmazing Review: Lewis is a master at surgically separating the truth from the ambiguities that surround it. Then he helps us see truth for what it is.

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