Friday, January 18, 2002
Friday, January 18, 2002
And my God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to his riches in glory
in Christ Jesus.
Believing in everything will not do us any good. We must believe in something specific--the
power of God through Christ at work in our lives. This is where we need to separate ourselves
from the positive thinking crowd--as helpful as positive thinking is. Sooner or later, though,
positive thinking proves inadequate to true empowerment. What is needed is not positive
thinking but positive faith. We have received Christ into our lives, and we believe that he is
able to do for us all that we will ever truly need.
(Philippians 4.19
NRSV)
There are a lot of foolish ideas and there are many foolish people. Many of them are like the
little boy whose first-grade teacher was asking her class about their parents' religious beliefs.
"My Daddy is Jewish and my Mommy is Catholic," this little fellow volunteered. A classmate
asked, "How do you know which religion you should believe in?" "Well, I believe in everything,"
the first boy said. "What do you mean you believe in everything?" another student asked. "You
know, Jesus, Moses, the Easter bunny, everything."
Lord Jesus, thank you for giving me everything I really need. Amen.
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