DWM-32 & NR1-34 & NR7-16 & RIG-02 & WFF-45 & WWJ-26
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Do you see rest, quietness, and confidence – or weariness, pandemonium, and upheaval in daily life? Societal commentators see us far from the quietness and deep in the pandemonium.
First, how are you dealing with the Change and Stress which derail us from seeking God’s Promised Quietness?
The only trouble with success is that the formula for achieving it is the same as the formula for a nervous breakdown. – CHUCK SWINDOLL
Although people will pay to fix their stress, they are not about to change the lifestyle that is causing it. – David C. Mc Casland
Stress may be the spice of life or the kiss of death. – Robert Elliot, M.D., CARDIOLOGIST
Things get worse under pressure – MURPHY’S LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS.
“Ironically, the people of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice, but from a paralyzing surfeit of it,” explained Alvin Toffler. “They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: over choice…the point at which the advantages of diversity and individualization are canceled by the complexity of the buyer’s decision-making process.”
Writer Robert Kanigel understands change and stress. “Here’s the problem: While choices multiply, we stay pretty much the same. Our bodies and minds remain the bottleneck through which choice must pass. We still have the same brains our forebears did, still only twenty-four hours a day to use them. We still need time and energy to listen, look, absorb, distinguish, and decide. The opportunity to choose among many options is, of course, a good thing. But maybe you can have too much of a good thing? Even of choice itself? Each choice saps energy, takes time, makes a big deal out of what isn’t.
So much of daily living is now involved with the making of trivial decisions based on this incredible profusion of choice. As Thoreau wrote in Walden, “Our life is frittered away by detail.”
Isaiah 30:15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” But you would not,
Secondly, how are you dealing with the ceaseless pressures of Debt that rob us our taking advantage of God’s Promised Quietness or Tranquility?
Another reason we need to cease all and rest weekly is that it keeps us aware of the debt frenzy all around us.
We will loan you enough money to get you completely out of debt. – SIGN IN A LOAN OFFICE
More than a billion people around the world live on less than a dollar a day. – RON SIDER
Interest works night and day, in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth. – HENRY WARD BEECHER Today, our lives are addictively intertwined in the economic system, and the credit-debt mentality has been fully normalized. “Someone has described a modern American as a person: who drives a bank-financed car over a bond-financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his Savings and Loan financed home with installment-purchased furniture.”
Isaiah 48:18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.