November 22: Shallow and Profound
Today in My Utmost for His Highest: http://www.myutmost.org/11/1122.html
Dear Jesus, Today's reading reminds me of a fact that I have observed: the ones who can still find great pleasure in the simple things of life will never truly be old! Of course, bodies age without fail, but the spirits of people can remain eternally young if they let themselves frolick in the shallows of life. The contrast makes the moments of Your profound revelations even more meaningful to life!
I think that living this way also makes it easier to understand the wisdom in Paul's advice earlier in Chapter 10 of I Corinthians: "Some of you say: 'We can do whatever we want to!' But I tell you that not everything may be good or helpful. We should think about others and not about ourselves... When you eat or drink or do anything else, always do it to honor God... I always try to please others instead of myself, in the hope that many of them will be saved."
Lord, please help the children of my heart to carefully consider these verses when they make choices in their lives regarding entertainment, personal ambition, who they date, etc. It is so easy to rationalize our actions arguing about exactly what is or is not "sin." For example, they may all have different opinions about whether or not it is a sin to drink alcohol, but that is the wrong question. The right question is, "Does this honor God?" May they learn to live by this philosophy:
What's right or what's wrong, that's not my cue,
But rather it is, what's the WISE thing to do!!
Dear Jesus, Today's reading reminds me of a fact that I have observed: the ones who can still find great pleasure in the simple things of life will never truly be old! Of course, bodies age without fail, but the spirits of people can remain eternally young if they let themselves frolick in the shallows of life. The contrast makes the moments of Your profound revelations even more meaningful to life!
I think that living this way also makes it easier to understand the wisdom in Paul's advice earlier in Chapter 10 of I Corinthians: "Some of you say: 'We can do whatever we want to!' But I tell you that not everything may be good or helpful. We should think about others and not about ourselves... When you eat or drink or do anything else, always do it to honor God... I always try to please others instead of myself, in the hope that many of them will be saved."
Lord, please help the children of my heart to carefully consider these verses when they make choices in their lives regarding entertainment, personal ambition, who they date, etc. It is so easy to rationalize our actions arguing about exactly what is or is not "sin." For example, they may all have different opinions about whether or not it is a sin to drink alcohol, but that is the wrong question. The right question is, "Does this honor God?" May they learn to live by this philosophy:
What's right or what's wrong, that's not my cue,
But rather it is, what's the WISE thing to do!!
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