Give Yourself Permission
Since most humans suffer from a lack of balance in their lives, our best counsel on living a steady and stable life comes from God’s Word.
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Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
Is Fatigue Next to Godliness?
Overcommitted, pushed, in a hurry, grim-faced, and determined, we plow through our responsibilities like a freight train under a full head of steam. What we lack in enthusiasm, we make up for in diligence.
Enough Is Enough
Christians are not immune from stress fractures, especially vocational Christian workers. How many pastors or missionaries do you know who truly enjoy guilt-free leisure? How many Christian executives can you name who really take sufficient time to relax?
The Downward Spiral of Defiance
Your defiance will come out in the most amazing ways: a battered child; a crime of passion; a blistering tongue-lashing; running away from home; an illicit pregnancy; an ugly, caustic line of profane words; an affair; domestic disharmony; a ruined testimony.
God Takes Action in Response to Defiance
Seeds that one plants grow. Often they bear ugly, treacherous thorns. They grow to such proportions that they bite and sting and hurt and infect us. God uses those thorns to prick us, to get us back on the right path.
God’s Attitude toward Defiance
Mark it down in bold print: Defiance still makes God angry.
Defiance: A Biblical Warning
The seeds of unaccountability were finally harvested...as they always are. The fruit? Unchecked independence. Nobody can get away with unaccountability. After a while, you’ve got to pay the piper. And that’s what Solomon did in the latter years of his life.
Dealing with Defiance
Although the term defiance does not appear in Scripture, acts and attitudes of defiance often do. No matter what the term, the scene is never pretty.
Peace Amidst an Uncertain Future
If you live intimidated by people, then you need to come to terms with your lack of peace. God is bigger than any person.
Peace Amidst Unpleasant Circumstances
Now, in case you choose to live like this and to lean in that manner on the living Lord, I want to warn you ahead of time, people won’t understand. If you’re in a situation that calls for panic, yet you don’t panic, they’re going to want to know what’s wrong with you. Isn’t that interesting?
