07 February 2021
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Example to the Way Life Is, Part 2 (TMF:1545)

Friday, February 12, 2021
Peace to Live By: Example to the Way Life Is, Part 2 (TMF:1545) - Daniel Litton
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       Dying and replaying a level was just part of the process. That’s how you reached the end of the game. And so it is with life. You have trials, you die, every once and awhile, and you have to replay the level. Sometimes you have to start back at the beginning of the game. That’s just the way it works; it’s normal. So, we should not expect a life without trials, without hardships. I think as we go through our lives, becoming more and more like Jesus, we will notice that we are growing closer in our love for God. And is that because we are moving closer to God? Well, Paul says here that it is actually God who has poured his love “into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” It is through the enabling of the Holy Spirit that we will feel God’s love.

Example to the Way Life Is, Part 1 (TMF:1544)

Thursday, February 11, 2021
Peace to Live By: Example to the Way Life Is, Part 1 (TMF:1544) - Daniel Litton
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       When I was growing up, my brothers and I loved to play Super Mario Brothers on the original Nintendo, the 8-bit one. We liked Mario I and Mario III. Playing either of these two games, we never got to the end of the games without dying many times before we reached the end (and as I’m sure many of you can recall yourself, it’s was like this with most video games of that time). You play and play, and every so often, you die. You fall off of a cliff, a bad guy gets you, whatever, you die. No one, my brothers or my friends, would have expected to play Mario straight through on the first run, having never given up a life, having never died. Dying and replaying a level was just part of the process. That’s how you reached the end of the game. And so it is with life. You have trials, you die, every once and awhile, and you have to replay the level.

God Carries Us Through Our Trials (TMF:1543)

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Peace to Live By: God Carries Us Through Our Trials (TMF:1543) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, sometimes it’s hard to tell whether we really are responsible or not. Regardless, I think the more we become familiar with how God works, how he takes care of us, we come to the place where, when a trial comes, we are not frightened or crushed by its presence. When we’ve been through trials, we know that God carries us through to the end of it. He gets us through it, and makes a way out even when it looks like there could be no possible way out. God always has some way out of the trial. This is something though, this confidence, this faith, it is something that I believe can only really be learned by experience, unfortunately. There just isn’t any other way to increase our faith. We need to keep in mind, when considering our lives, that they cannot and will not be perfect, and squeaky clean, all the way through to the end.

Endurance, Character, and Hope (TMF:1542)

Tuesday, February 09, 2021
Peace to Live By: Endurance, Character, and Hope (TMF:1542) - Daniel Litton
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       And what does endurance do for us? Paul said endurance produces character. The battle scar of enduring our trial is a positive one; it means we better know how to cope with trouble, deal with it, and wait on God when trouble comes. After we have endured, we now have better character. And this character produces hope. And why does it produce hope? It produces hope because our character is a better character. When our character is taken to the next level, we recognize that we are becoming more like Jesus. And that gives us hope for the future when we will ultimately become like Jesus. One thing that we must always be mindful of is that God will carry us through whatever trial we face. And this is true even if we believe we caused it, that we are responsible for it. Now, sometimes it’s hard to tell whether we really are responsible or not.

The Benefit of Christian Suffering (TMF:1541)

Monday, February 08, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Benefit of Christian Suffering (TMF:1541) - Daniel Litton
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       With our government and society the way it is setup, it is generally tolerating of Christian teaching and serving, or people just ignore it. Since we believe everyone’s allowed to have their own opinion on whatever, there seems to be less suffering. Nevertheless, there still is some suffering for Christians, even here in America. And Paul tells us that suffering first produces endurance for us. It produces endurance for us, why? It does because quitting is not allowed for us. As Donald Trump use to always say on his T.V. show the Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice, “Are you a quitter?” Mr. Trump didn’t like quitters, and Jesus doesn’t like them either. God doesn’t want us to quit. And when we don’t quit, we endure. And what does endurance do for us? Paul said endurance produces character.