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Not Judging God for Bad Happenings, Part 3 (TMF:2360)

Friday, May 24, 2024
Peace to Live By: Not Judging God for Bad Happenings, Part 3 (TMF:2360) - Daniel Litton
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       Anyway, right as I was about to have to make a tuff choice of giving up my residence, God provided me with a new job. Interestingly enough, it was just as interesting as my old one, and one I think that is good in a lot of ways. There was this background thought as I was getting the job, that “Wow, this really seems too good to be true. I thought I was done with this field never to return, and here I am returning.” And this was this prevailing thought almost as if this wasn’t supposed to happen. What I mean is that it was almost like I obtained good that I ordinarily wouldn’t have gotten. And, I believe that I got this good position because I didn’t blame God for my negative circumstances, much like old Daniel would have done. Yes, getting the new position was quiet miraculous to me. It’s like my obedience caused my life to go down a better path than it would of had I not been obedient. Sure, God may have helped me if I’d of been negative and complaining, but it would have been for his own sake, and it probably would have been ‘just enough’ for me to get by.

Not Judging God for Bad Happenings, Part 2 (TMF:2359)

Thursday, May 23, 2024
Peace to Live By: Not Judging God for Bad Happenings, Part 2 (TMF:2359) - Daniel Litton
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       One thing that happened to me in recent times was I lost my job after working it for about thirteen years. It wasn’t anything I did wrong, but my company moved my department to another state. I ended up not leaving Ohio and going to that different state. Nonetheless, I was out of work, and had a short time before I had to find a new job. One thing I didn’t do, however, was blame the situation on God. That was one thing I kept consistent. I thought, “No matter what happens, I am not blaming this on God, even if I can no longer be independent on my own.” There was such peace in that. Anyway, right as I was about to have to make a tuff choice of giving up my residence, God provided me with a new job. Interestingly enough, it was just as interesting as my old one, and one I think that is good in a lot of ways. There was this background thought as I was getting the job, that “Wow, this really seems too good to be true. I thought I was done with this field never to return, and here I am returning.”

Not Judging God for Bad Happenings, Part 1 (TMF:2358)

Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Peace to Live By: Not Judging God for Bad Happenings, Part 1 (TMF:2358) - Daniel Litton
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       One thing that unfortunately took me a long time to learn in life is not judging God for bad things that happen. And that is no matter what. My mind always wanted to go quickly to judging God—to putting blame on the Author of the Universe simply because he had the power to stop whatever it was. There was that prevailing thought, “God, you could have stopped this bad thing from happening! And because you didn’t, you are at fault!” Yes, we forfeit the model Job provided for us from way, way back and instead make God out to be the guilty one. And, this is exactly what Satan wants us to do. The enemy wants us to do this because it places us at odds with God, the only one, ironically, who can truly help us. One thing that happened to me in recent times was I lost my job after working it for about thirteen years. It wasn’t anything I did wrong, but my company moved my department to another state. I ended up not leaving Ohio and going to that different state. Nonetheless, I was out of work, and had a short time before I had to find a new job. One thing I didn’t do, however, was blame the situation on God.

We Choose to be Happy (TMF:2357)

Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Peace to Live By: We Choose to be Happy (TMF:2357) - Daniel Litton
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       We’ve heard it said before, and that is that happiness is about our perspective on things. It’s cliche, and it’s true. It doesn’t mean that every moment of life will be, or can be happy. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t certain life circumstances of which happiness really is absent. It just means that in the normal, everyday way of life, that our happiness level is our own choice. It’s all in how we ‘see’ things. We should not be too attached to anything so as to let that attachment cost us our happiness if whatever it is doesn’t pan out. By building this kind of mindset, we are able to exercise self-control within ourselves, and not be controlled by our external circumstances. Most people do in fact let their external circumstances control them. But Jesus was our perfect example in this area, where even in the most intense moment of his life, where most of us would have been crying and screaming, Jesus kept his cool. He endured what he had to without any word of complaint. Rather, he looked forward to what was to come after that moment in time.

Blessings in Disguise, Part 2 (TMF:2356)

Monday, May 20, 2024
Peace to Live By: Blessings in Disguise, Part 2 (TMF:2356) - Daniel Litton
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       Any mindset believing otherwise turns out to not be true. And if a person believes he or she truly has lost the good and is not seeing the better, it is probably because they are so focused on the past loss that they cannot see the good that is coming. In fact, there may be good right in front of them that they are currently missing because their minds are stuck in the past. That is a truly miserable place indeed—to be trapped in a past lost with no hope for the future. Sometimes in life, losing something we think is good is the best thing that can happen to us. These loses are blessings in disguise; they aren’t really loses. This is because we end up with something just as good, and even sometimes something better in the end. God tells us in the Bible to have patience. The word seems to be more and more foreign in this day and age. Patience, however, is our friend. We should love it and embrace it. That way, instead of ending up with something good, there can be times where we end up with something even better. It’s as the saying goes, “Good is the enemy of the great.” I can bear witness that this testimony is true.