UNLEARN THE HABIT OF FRET AND FUSS

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Remember Erma Bombeck? She wrote a piece one day about a little boy named Donald. I have a feeling he was a composite rather than a real person, but I think getting inside of Donald’s head is a good way to close this morning’s sermon. A good way to emphasize how foolishly we all can sometimes capture more worry bugs than we know what to do with, and, please forgive me, let them bug us.

Before his first day of school, six-year old Donald proved he had worrying down pat. His thoughts were as follows: My name is Donald. I don’t know anything. I have new underwear, a loose tooth, and I didn’t sleep much last night. What if a bell rings and a man yells, “Where do you belong?” and I don’t know? What if the trays in the cafeteria are too high for me to reach? What if my loose tooth comes out when we have our heads down and are supposed to be quiet? Am I supposed to bleed quietly? What if I splash water on my nametag and my name disappears and no one knows who I am?

Yes, without any teaching, Donald had already learned the art of worrying.

An old preacher friend of mine used to tell me, “Neil, if your knees are knocking, kneel on them.”
Did you know that enough fog to obscure seven blocks of downtown Miami, when condensed, would fill a medium sized glass with water? Have you ever stopped to think that, like Donald, we do that – make our fears bigger than they deserve to be? Fall victim to a fog that confuses our perception of reality. I guess what I’m saying to each of us is …. Plug into the Lord on a regular basis. Be so busy so often putting our hands in a praying position we find it impossible to spend much time wringing them. And when we pray, ask for total recall. Total recall of all the goodness He has given us, and probably more just waiting for us around the corner. Climb up on His heavenly lap. He has gifts that make Santa’s pale by comparison. Believe He cares about every single detail of our life.

He has rooms in heaven all filled with Christ-mas presents just waiting for us to really ask for them. The peace that passeth understanding is one of them. It may take more patella-persuasion than you are willing to give. More praying than you’re willing to do. Your reluctance may be greater than your persistence.

Well now, I’ve given you a lot of things to remember to do, haven’t I? And now I give you one more. Read Psalm 37. I call it the Fret Not Psalm. Read it and see if you agree.

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HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)

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