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Letting Opportunity Go

Posted in Felix, Manipulation, Maturity, Opportunity, Paul, tagged on March 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »

[Felix] hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.  –  Acts 24:26

A curious story – Paul was unjustly thrown in prison and brought before governor Felix, who saw no fault in him but wanted a bribe for his release.

Felix couldn’t say so, of course, but everyone knew it – that’s the way things got done.

But Paul was content to stay in that awful environment, meet with Felix and the other prisoners as often as they asked, then finally be passed on to do the same for someone else.

Why?  It doesn’t say, but I think Paul trusted that Jesus hadn’t abandoned him but was with him in that prison.  And when God is with you what difference does it make where you are. I think Paul resolved, as an act of faith, to not live for himself, even in putrid surroundings, and to not manipulate the system to get what he wanted.

Lesson: We sometimes find ourselves in unhealthy and unpleasant circumstances, not because we are outside God’s will but because we are in it, and letting some opportunities go is the right thing to do.

Sound Bite: When God is with you what difference does it make where you are!
– fritz

Related Post: Not a Prisoner of the one who Owns the Chains (May 8, 2010)

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Carpe Diem!

Posted in Garrison Keillor, gospel, Opportunity, Quotes on June 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »

The Gospel spread like wildfire in part because the world had a new common language. Those whose native tongue was something else wrote the Bible in Greek; barriers were stripped and the Word of God held its own in the public arena!

NOW is another wonderful opportunity – think about it!

“We live in a literate time, and our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numerals (U R 2 1derful), blogging like crazy, reading for hours off their little screens, surfing around from Henry James to Jesse James to the epistle of James to pajamas to Obama to Alabama to Alanon to non-sequiturs, sequins, penguins, penal institutions, and it’s all free, and you read freely, you’re not committed to anything the way you are when you shell out $30 for a book, you’re like a hummingbird in an endless meadow of flowers.” – Garrison Keillor 1

With this has come the ability to reach out; barriers are again stripped and the Word of God is free to hold its own in the public arena!

To Garrison, a veteran author, the era of self publishing is cheesy:

“And if you want to write, you just write and publish yourself. No need to ask permission, just open a website…. And if you want to write a book, you just write it … the future of publishing [is] 18 million authors in America, each with an average of 14 readers, eight of whom are blood relatives …”1

But, it’s a good thing! If every 14 reached 14 more, calculate the results!

So, dear 14 readers (and , Hello, uncle Bussy!), seize the day’s opportunity, share Christ, there’s nothing to stop you except you!

– fritz

1. The Old Scout, A Prairie Home Companion, May 25th 2010

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Let go what you can’t use…

Posted in Opportunity on September 9, 2006| Leave a Comment »

Don’t throw away your faith and confidence when you are in the middle of a struggle. This is the time to hold fast and rest in My care.

You are not able to handle every opportunity or blessing so let the ones you can’t use go to others. I will still care for you and give you the blessings you can use.

– September 9, 2006

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