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There are only so many things you can do if the world gives you too much disgust.
You can fight and find spice in battle.
You can try to understand it and accept the fact that there are some parts of the universe you will never understand.
You can retreat; pack up your phobias, close your doors, shut out the world and act as if becoming a hermit is really a solution.
You can retreat from life and mock its architect.
You can say God made a mistake when He made this world.
You can climb in a psychological or spiritual shell and say that because there is some ugliness, nothing is lovely or worthy of love.
But…what does Jesus teach?
It certainly isn’t escapism.
He says, “Yes, there is darkness…so go be a light.”
“Yes, there are the spiritually depraved, now YOU…go out and hunger and thirst for righteousness.”
Just because things are bad is no excuse for you to go and make them worse.
The Apostle Paul, searching for an answer wrote, “I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God…which is in Christ Jesus.”
Emerson said it, “All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.”
There are only so many things you can do if the world gives you too much disgust.
You can fight and find spice in battle.
You can try to understand it and accept the fact that there are some parts of the universe you will never understand.
You can retreat; pack up your phobias, close your doors, shut out the world and act as if becoming a hermit is really a solution.
You can retreat from life and mock its architect.
You can say God made a mistake when He made this world.
You can climb in a psychological or spiritual shell and say that because there is some ugliness, nothing is lovely or worthy of love.
But…what does Jesus teach?
It certainly isn’t escapism.
He says, “Yes, there is darkness…so go be a light.”
“Yes, there are the spiritually depraved, now YOU…go out and hunger and thirst for righteousness.”
Just because things are bad is no excuse for you to go and make them worse.
The Apostle Paul, searching for an answer wrote, “I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God…which is in Christ Jesus.”
Emerson said it, “All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.”
A great writer, thinker, philosopher John Oxeham wrote:
“Not for one single day
Can I discern my way.
But this I surely know…
Who gives the day,
Will show the way,
So I securely go.”
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To view an abundance of unusual stories by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
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To view an abundance of unusual stories by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Click on the following URL
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