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29 November 2004

To Pause & Reflect

17:27:33 :: [theology] :: 194 words

For a year or two now I’ve received RBC Ministries’ “Our Daily Bread,” a free devotional pamphlet that outlines simple Biblical truths in plain-English bites of a small page each. On the front of every issue is a picture of something out of nature along with a Bible verse.

The January 2005 edition of ODB features Psalm 143:5, which says,

I meditate on all Your works;
I muse on the works of Your hands.

Usually I just overlook these little pithy verses as being a part of the formatting of the devotional guide, but this time I took a moment to consider: do I really meditate on everything God has done for me? Do I meditate on my salvation, on the works of His hands, the celestial bodies and nature? No, to be frank, I haven’t in a long while. Well, here’s to a renewed committment. Cure for depression and anxiety: think of what God’s done for me (I’m breathing, I’m alive, I’m saved, for three; go from there!) and thank Him. Just a thought.

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To Pause & Reflect

17:27:33 :: [theology] :: 194 words

For a year or two now I’ve received RBC Ministries’ “Our Daily Bread,” a free devotional pamphlet that outlines simple Biblical truths in plain-English bites of a small page each. On the front of every issue is a picture of something out of nature along with a Bible verse.

The January 2005 edition of ODB features Psalm 143:5, which says,

I meditate on all Your works;
I muse on the works of Your hands.

Usually I just overlook these little pithy verses as being a part of the formatting of the devotional guide, but this time I took a moment to consider: do I really meditate on everything God has done for me? Do I meditate on my salvation, on the works of His hands, the celestial bodies and nature? No, to be frank, I haven’t in a long while. Well, here’s to a renewed committment. Cure for depression and anxiety: think of what God’s done for me (I’m breathing, I’m alive, I’m saved, for three; go from there!) and thank Him. Just a thought.

No Responses to “To Pause & Reflect”

  1.  ThinkBlog » Blog Archive » Some Thoughts on Stress Says:

    […] Every day in my inbox I receive a little text-based email from E-Word Today that has in it a little thought from the previously-mentioned RBC Ministries’ Our Daily Bread, a quote from illustrious nineteenth-century preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and a chapter or part of a chapter out of the Bible. There are a few good little quotes I’d like to share here, and they all deal with stress. One sin rationalized becomes two. […]

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