Intro to Our Determination in Difficult Times, Part 2 (TMF:724)

Thursday, August 31, 2017
Peace to Live By: Intro to Our Determination in Difficult Times, Part 2 (TMF:724) - Daniel Litton
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       If Franklin Roosevelt could live as well as he did with what should have been a great and career-ending disability, then we have no excuse—those of us of face smaller obstacles in life. On one occasion, later in his life, Franklin would say, “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.” He knew the truth behind that statement all too well. It would be so easy in face of the type of challenge that was set before Franklin to be cynical, to have a negative and complaining attitude. It reminds me of a quote from his distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, about our determination in life. He said: “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” When we make no choices in life, no decisions to do anything or be anybody, we never progress. And if we are like this as Christians, we will never see ourselves growing to become more like Jesus.