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Picking What We Want to Do, Part 2 (TMF:2315)

Friday, March 22, 2024
Peace to Live By: Picking What We Want to Do, Part 2 (TMF:2315) - Daniel Litton
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       We can be solely a career oriented person if we want to, but we have to make that choice beforehand. We cannot make that choice after we are married and have three kids. At that point, in this latter case, you cannot decide you are going to focus so much on your career that you neglect your family. If you have a family, God wants you to focus on your family. If you are spending too much time away from them, you are going to have to make a change. Making change isn’t always easy. I knew a man once that realized he need to spend more time with one of his sons. He didn’t want to neglect him. So what did he do? Well, he decided to neglect our leadership meetings instead to spend more time with his son. Was this the correct answer? Obviously not. It wasn’t necessarily wrong that he wanted to spend more time with his son, but he needed to pick one or the other. He tried to have both and what ended up happening is our leadership group suffered as a result. What he should have done was opt out of the leadership group at that point. So, people have to be careful when making change. You may have too much on your plate and need to drop a thing or two.

Picking What We Want to Do, Part 1 (TMF:2314)

Thursday, March 21, 2024
Peace to Live By: Picking What We Want to Do, Part 1 (TMF:2314) - Daniel Litton
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       Recently I was watching a sermon online from a famous Christian Orthodox minister. He was saying that what we value in our lives is a matter of the heart. A man can work two jobs, but for two different reasons. If one works the two jobs in order to provide for his family, his wife and children, that is all well and good. Nonetheless, if the man works two jobs in order to make more money so that he can buy something he desires, while neglecting his wife and kids, well, obviously that’s bad. The important thing is that we decide what we value. That we don’t put our foot through one door while keeping the other foot outside of it. As I have said before in the past, God never told us we had to get married. God never told us we have to have children. Both those things are good, but we don’t have to do them. We can be solely a career oriented person if we want to, but we have to make that choice beforehand. We cannot make that choice after we are married and have three kids. At that point, in this latter case, you cannot decide you are going to focus so much on your career that you neglect your family.

Not Looking for the Answers Now, Part 2 (TMF:2313)

Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Peace to Live By: Not Looking for the Answers Now, Part 2 (TMF:2313) - Daniel Litton
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       Questions are inevitable. The temptation then invariably comes to immediately try to solve those questions. We think, “I am smart. I can figure this out.” There are some things in life, though, where it is only through waiting and perhaps even experience that we can truly understand something. Not everything can be comprehended from a textbook. Nor is everything easy to solve. Nor are our minds capable of figuring it all out now. My experience has been that the answers come later in time. Sometimes a couple months later, but sometimes a couple years later. And still yet, there are questions that remain unanswered. Perhaps not every question will be answered in this life. And that’s okay though. We need to be able to accept that not all questions can in fact be given answers, at least, in the here and now. The important thing is that we stay close to God, and that we do not place blame on God when we don’t have the answer, no matter what the situation or question may be. If we keep God in the forefront of our lives, with nothing as important as him, then truly not having the answers starts not to matter much anymore.

Not Looking for the Answers Now, Part 1 (TMF:2312)

Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Peace to Live By: Not Looking for the Answers Now, Part 1 (TMF:2312) - Daniel Litton
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       It is easy in the middle of a life difficultly to frantically want to find the answer to what is currently going on. For most of us, our minds in twenty first century America have been programmed to think rationally, to try to understand everything, if possible, the best we can. Nonetheless, we need to realize that typically during a difficulty in life we don’t have the answer at that time. Any answer that we try to come up with will most likely be incorrect. That’s because, to use an old saying, we can’t see the forest for the trees. We are blinded by our trial, and we don’t have clear vision on it. Only later, sometimes much later, will we be able to look back and say, “Ah, now I understand.” It is true as well that as we study things we will come up with questions inside our minds as to why this is this way and that is that way. Questions are inevitable. The temptation then invariably comes to immediately try to solve those questions. We think, “I am smart. I can figure this out.” There are some things in life, though, where it is only through waiting and perhaps even experience that we can truly understand something.

Responsibility for What We Believe, Part 3 (TMF:2311)

Monday, March 18, 2024
Peace to Live By: Responsibility for What We Believe, Part 3 (TMF:2311) - Daniel Litton
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       When a person comes to God, they acknowledge how they are wrong and how God is right. That’s why they are ‘coming to God’ because they weren’t with God ‘previously.’ God cannot make a person come into relationship with him, and nor would he want to. That would be artificial, it wouldn’t be real. So, if you yourself don’t want to be artificial, it’s time you start being honest with yourself about what you really believe. A lot of times with people, they end up saying that they do indeed agree with what they were taught growing up as a child. They know deep within themselves that, “This isn’t just what my family believes, this is now what I personally believe.” And sometimes a person may continue the beliefs, but take a different approach with them. Still thirdly, after evaluation, a person may just decide that they don’t believe what they were taught. Nevertheless, all three of these people have taken responsibility. It is the person who continues to believe ‘just because’ is the one who is really in trouble.