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Keeping Track of Past Victories, Part 1 (TMF:2335)

Friday, April 19, 2024
Peace to Live By: Keeping Track of Past Victories, Part 1 (TMF:2335) - Daniel Litton
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       One thing I have taught myself to do over the last several years is to keep track of victories that occur in my life. These can be prayers that God has answered, good things that have happened to me, or bad situations that have turned out for the good. Whatever you list, by doing this practice you keep those things alive. Our minds have a tendency to forget the good things but always seem to easily remember the bad things. I don’t know how many times I have gone back and looked through my list and found something good that has happened that I totally had forgotten about. Unfortunately, our minds just have a tendency for easily forgetting the good things. It is also fun to see how what we cover in our daily devotional time can manifest itself in our lives. Say we practice some new technique, or new way of thinking, that we then wait to see how it affects our lives. We may find a week or two into it that whatever it is has worked out for us. He have gained a positive advantage in our lives. So, we make note of that and then that will always be there for us to see in the future.

Violating Our Own Rules, Part 2 (TMF:2334)

Thursday, April 18, 2024
Peace to Live By: Violating Our Own Rules, Part 2 (TMF:2334) - Daniel Litton
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       I make sure I miss a Bible study every once in a while. I don’t want to just go every time because I feel I have to. This can also be a good way to caught up on stuff if we have fallen behind. If it is hanging out with friends, that too I have skipped in order to just spend some time with myself, doing what I just want to do. We can’t please everyone all the time, and sometimes we need to just do what we want to do. So, whatever your rules or practices are, but sure that you do not become enslaved to them. Watch those practices because while we do a lot of good things, there is nothing that says we always have to do them every time. Breaks are good for minds, and to change up the routine. Sometimes the routine even gets stale, and by skipping something, or doing something differently, we can freshen things up. This keeps us in charge of our rules instead of them being in charge of us. That, I believe, keeps us happier, and that’s what we want to make sure of, that we are happy, while we are going through the motions.

Violating Our Own Rules, Part 1 (TMF:2333)

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Peace to Live By: Violating Our Own Rules, Part 1 (TMF:2333) - Daniel Litton
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       A lot of us create our own rules that we follow in our daily lives. What I mean is that we have certain routines, or practices, that we have created that aren’t necessarily mandated by Scripture but of which we do to try to keep things in order. We may read our Bibles for twenty minutes every morning after waking up. We might spend ten minutes in prayer every morning. Perhaps we go to Bible study every Wednesday night. Or we meet so and so for coffee on Saturday mornings to discuss Biblical things. So, we have these rules that we keep in order to try to follow what we perceive from Scripture that we need to follow. What I like to do, every once in a while, is violate these rules to keep them in check. I don’t want to become a robot. I don’t want to be going through the motions merely for the sake of going through the motions. So, every once in a while I might handle one devotional differently. Perhaps I’ll read something upon waking up that I normally wouldn’t read. I make sure I miss a Bible study every once in a while. I don’t want to just go every time because I feel I have to.

Nobody is Your Happiness, Part 3 (TMF:2332)

Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Peace to Live By: Nobody is Your Happiness, Part 3 (TMF:2332) - Daniel Litton
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       As the world changes, and people come and go, that would be unwise. This world will not carry on as it has. Things change. Even if someone has been in your life all of your life up to this point (for example, let’s say your parents), they will eventually leave. So, things aren’t always as they seem they will be. The Gospel writer John has told us that Jesus did not put his stock in any human being completely and entirely. A careful evaluation of Jesus’ life will show us that where he put his stock was in God. It was with God that he spent the majority of his close social time. It was God he was trying to please. I’m not saying we shouldn’t trust anyone; that is totally different from what I am talking about here. What I am saying is that nobody on this earth is our life. Nobody but God is the reason for our existence. That means, just like Jesus, we can only find true happiness in our relationship with God.

Nobody is Your Happiness, Part 2 (TMF:2331)

Monday, April 15, 2024
Peace to Live By: Nobody is Your Happiness, Part 2 (TMF:2331) - Daniel Litton
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       Indeed, we will also notice that the marriage relationship is transitory. Jesus spoke clearly about this. If that relationship doesn’t last past this life, then that would also lead to the conclusion that parental relationships do not last. In evaluating all of this, we can go roundabout back to the fact that God is the only relationship we have of which is consistently here and consistently in the next life. Yes, we may have other relationships that carry over, but how that will look is certainly unclear. None of our friends will be the reason for our existence in the next life. Understanding all of this, what does it mean? It means that in none of these relationships can we lay our foundation of happiness. As the world changes, and people come and go, that would be unwise. This world will not carry on as it has. Things change. Even if someone has been in your life all of your life up to this point (for example, let’s say your parents), they will eventually leave.