18 September 2022
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Is the Physical Body Needed for Life? (TMF:1945)

Friday, September 23, 2022
Peace to Live By: Is the Physical Body Needed for Life? (TMF:1945) - Daniel Litton
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       You see, on the news, when there is a scary event taking place, that all the people run to try to get away from whatever it is. Why do they do that? Why do the people run for safety? They run because, within them, is the belief that one has to keep their body safe in order to live life. So, the body is needed for living. Is that true, though? Well, according to the Bible, obviously not. We don’t need our bodies to experience life. If someone was to get shot or whatever and dies, all that happens is they lose their capacity to live in that body. But they don’t lose their capacity to live. Living continues regardless of what has transpired. This all comes down to the fact that “All that matter is God.” That is because when we transcend this life, we will be immediately in his presence, and we will be in his presence forevermore. Bringing this back around, does this mean, again, that this life doesn’t matter?

All that is Material Has to be Surrendered (TMF:1944)

Thursday, September 22, 2022
Peace to Live By: All that is Material Has to be Surrendered (TMF:1944) - Daniel Litton
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       If we know this feeling then, why do so many people spend their lives following after it—following Christianity in a way that is uncomfortable and even dreadful? One might say, “It is the next life that matters. I am storing up rewards for myself there.” As I have just established, good performance doesn’t come from going through the motions. And if going through the motions isn’t what God wants, then how is it that many rewards will be benefited from doing what God doesn’t want? Do you see? So, is it true that life doesn’t really matter, and that it’s the next life that matters? I think your focus is on the wrong thing. All things in this life have to be eventually surrendered. Even my body has to be surrendered. You see, on the news, when there is a scary event taking place, that all the people run to try to get away from whatever it is. Why do they do that? Why do the people run for safety? They run because, within them, is the belief that one has to keep their body safe in order to live life. So, the body is needed for living. Is that true, though?

Acting from the Heart (TMF:1943)

Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Peace to Live By: Acting from the Heart (TMF:1943) - Daniel Litton
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       We must conclude that the only acting that works is the acting that we really want to do, that is, acting that comes from our hearts. We’ve all had this experience. In grade school or even college you took classes that you really didn’t want to take. They were required, so you had to take them in order to move closer to the goal of succeeding. It wasn’t fun, but because of the way the school systems are, it was required. So, both you and I know that feeling—the feeling of doing something we really don’t want to do. It’s a restriction of freedom. If we succeeded in those classes, it was because we looked past them at what? We looked at what doing good would get us in the near future. The suffering was temporary and the reward was right around the corner. If we didn’t do well in them, it is because we were enslaved by the very thought of them, and gave into all the negative emotions that accompanied taking the classes. We obviously then didn’t end up with a good end result. If we know this feeling then, why do so many people spend their lives following after it—following Christianity in a way that is uncomfortable and even dreadful?

Looking at Freedom, Part 2 (TMF:1942)

Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Peace to Live By: Looking at Freedom, Part 2 (TMF:1942) - Daniel Litton
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       We do, nonetheless, get to choose what we want to do with our lives, and how are going to act. We get to choose whether we will be in relationship with the Creator, or whether we choose to believe something else. If we do believe in Jesus, we know he gifts us with certain spiritual gifts for the common good. Did not Paul say, though, that there are even certain gifts we can desire if we want to? So, in a sense, we even have say in those spiritual gifts. James said that we are to be “a doer who acts” in order that we “will be blessed in [our] doing.” Action is important. That’s what we’re talking about here. Not looking into the mirror and getting no feedback out of it, no direction in truth that will benefit us. We can act, of course, that is easy. We can be like the pagans Jesus talked about a minute ago, who by acting, think they are making great gains. We must conclude that the only acting that works is the acting that we really want to do, that is, acting that comes from our hearts.

Looking at Freedom, Part 1 (TMF:1941)

Monday, September 19, 2022
Peace to Live By: Looking at Freedom, Part 1 (TMF:1941) - Daniel Litton
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       So much focus and attention can be placed on what God has forbidden, as if it is by considering the forbidden that we get a life of true freedom. Actually, it is what God has allowed that shows us our true freedom. Yes, there are certain things that God has crafted in us of which he decided the way it was going to be. Even zooming out from that, though, was it not God who created the whole Universe, set all things in order, and even created the Earth with all its functioning and the universal laws behind that? This being the case, then, we can also recognize that God has created all persons individually. We did not decide whether we are a boy or a girl, what kind of skin we have, how tall we are, what color hair is on our head, our eye color, etc. Does this mean God is the ultimate dictator? Does this prove he does indeed restrict freedom? You see, though, isn’t that really where it stops? Isn’t that where freedom begins? No one gets to create their own Universe and Earth. We are all the same on that level.