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Responsibility for Our Characters, Part 3 (TMF:2305)

Friday, March 08, 2024
Peace to Live By: Responsibility for Our Characters, Part 3 (TMF:2305) - Daniel Litton
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       This probably won’t be easy because it requires us to relinquish our pride. That pride that has built up inside of ourselves, that self-righteousness. It needs to go. And the more perfectionistic a person is, the harder this is going to be. Perfectionism is dumb really because nothing in this world is absolutely perfect. Even your English Bible translation has some errors in it. Once we begin the process of giving up our pride then, we can really start to experience life and all that it has to offer. We can increase our level of happiness. This is because it feels good to admit when we are wrong. It brings healing to even long-drawn out situations. It makes God happy. It makes it so that each of us are seen in a more realistic light, and not some hyped up, artificial light that we, or even others, have created about us. It makes us relatable to others so that our personhood is not lifted up on some pedestal for all to see. People know we are human, and then we can relax. We can relax because we don’t have to keep aiming at that perfectionistic bar that has been set so high.

Responsibility for Our Characters, Part 2 (TMF:2304)

Thursday, March 07, 2024
Peace to Live By: Responsibility for Our Characters, Part 2 (TMF:2304) - Daniel Litton
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       We are all responsible for our own characters. That’s the simple truth. Yet, neither you nor I have lived up to this ideal. We’ve all failed in both small and large ways. In the same breath, I’m not saying that every time something goes wrong that we are at fault. A lot of times we are, and sometimes it is just a matter that we could have done something a bit better, with a more effective approach. Nonetheless, we see it all around us in our world. We see people not wanting to take responsibility for what has happened and try to blame someone bigger. Organizations are blamed. News is blamed. Responsibility is thrown back to people who are no longer living. Indeed it seems that every facet of anything that is, has faced taking on the burden of undue responsibility. So, how do we solve the problem? Well, it’s true that none of us can get people to take responsibility. That’s a personal decision that everyone has to make within themselves. However, we do have great control over ourselves, or at least, we should have. In that case, we can then take responsibility for our own behavior when we need to.

Responsibility for Our Characters, Part 1 (TMF:2303)

Wednesday, March 06, 2024
Peace to Live By: Responsibility for Our Characters, Part 1 (TMF:2303) - Daniel Litton
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       It is the oldest game in the book—blaming someone else or something else when something goes wrong. Remember? That’s what Adam did the first time he sinned. He blamed Eve. He didn’t take responsibility. Recently, I watching a pastor prepare to give a sermon at highly esteemed church in the evangelical world. He was reading over the passage of Scripture and thought he lost his place. So what did he do? Did he take responsibility? Even in this minor infraction, the pastor blamed the reason on the fact he had just purchased a new Bible. It kind of bothered me while I was listening to his sermon. I thought, “How much pride that one cannot even take responsibility for something so small?” I know, I am being nit picky here. But my overarching point is that I am trying to show that it’s important for us to take responsibility. We are all responsible for our own characters. That’s the simple truth. Yet, neither you nor I have lived up to this ideal. We’ve all failed in both small and large ways. In the same breath, I’m not saying that every time something goes wrong that we are at fault.

Getting Up Early Creates Freedom, Part 3 (TMF:2302)

Tuesday, March 05, 2024
Peace to Live By: Getting Up Early Creates Freedom, Part 3 (TMF:2302) - Daniel Litton
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       We weren’t rushing around. We weren’t trying to cut things down to squeeze out lost time. We aren’t skipping anything we shouldn’t be skipping. Everything is flowing just right because we have started things off right. We feel we have plenty of time instead. And that is a good feeling for sure. We feel that we will get accomplished what we need to get accomplished today. And that leads me to my third point, and this is that we do in fact get more done when we get up earlier. After all, we spend that solid time in devotions and praying to God. Since we did that, we know have more time afterwards to get things done. If we had gotten up later, we would have had to of done our devotional time later, and then we would have had a late start getting to the day’s work, whatever it is. We may of had to of cut something out that we really should have tackled today. But that didn’t happen because we got up early and did things in their proper order. And not to mention I think God blesses our days when we do this. He likes it when we put him first.

Getting Up Early Creates Freedom, Part 2 (TMF:2301)

Monday, March 04, 2024
Peace to Live By: Getting Up Early Creates Freedom, Part 2 (TMF:2301) - Daniel Litton
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       We will be thinking about good things, helpful things, and not rushing out of bed and trying to start our day off on the wrong foot. After we have read whatever good thing we decided (the Bible, a good book, whatever), we will spend some time in prayer with God (or perhaps we pray first). That prayer time allows us to spend essential time with the most important person in our lives. That prayer time allows us to spend essential time with the most important person in our lives, the Person we exist for and the Person who should be first in our lives. We feel happier when we do this. The second thing I pointed out is that we get the day started off right. I mean, this naturally produces positive feelings flowing through our heads when we know we did the morning the right way. We weren’t rushing around. We weren’t trying to cut things down to squeeze out lost time. We aren’t skipping anything we shouldn’t be skipping. Everything is flowing just right because we have started things off right. We feel we have plenty of time instead. And that is a good feeling for sure. We feel that we will get accomplished what we need to get accomplished today.