> God can bring you through situations you think you
> won’t survive, or
> feel you’ll be stuck in forever. He can make you
> comfortable in the
> most uncomfortable places, and give you peace in the midst
> of trauma.
> Before your life is over you’ll live, love, and
> experience loss. Losing
> some things will actually help you to appreciate the things
> you still
> have. It’s the taste of failure that makes success
> sweet. You’ll live
> each day not knowing what tomorrow holds, but confident
> that God has
> your tomorrows all planned out. They’re not in the
> hands of your boss
> or your banker or your mate or anybody else. Nor are they
> in your own
> hands to manipulate and control. No, all your tomorrows are
> in God’s
> hands. Just because you don’t recognise the path
> you’re on doesn’t mean
> that God’s not leading you. He promises, ‘…I will
> lead them in paths
> they have not known. I will make darkness light before
> them, and
> crooked places straight. These things I will do for them,
> and not
> forsake them’ (Isaiah 42:16 NKJV). So get to know God -
> you’ll need
> Him. And He’ll be there for you. He’ll be there
> when everybody and
> everything else has failed you. He’ll be there for you
> in the dark
> places. ‘…Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
> comes in the
> morning’ (Psalm 30:5 NKJV). However long the night,
> morning always
> comes, and with it His joy. As you look back you’ll
> realise that His
> grace protected you, provided for you, secured you, calmed
> you,
> comforted you and brought you through. Times and seasons
> change, but
> not God. He’s always ‘the God of all comfort.’

Think that you can do it your own way

Make solo decisions

Be proud

Live as though to please yourself

Be dishonest

Be motivated by material

Share with the proud

Be rude

Don’t try and understand others

Be violent

Wink with your eye

Purse your lip

Lose your temper

One day a father and his rich family took his son to a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and a night in the farm of a very poor family. When they got back from their trip the father asked his son, “How was the trip?”

“Very good Dad!” replied his son.

“Did you see how poor people can be?” the father asked.

“Yeah!”

“And what did you learn?”

The son answered, “I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden; they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lamps in the garden; they have the stars. Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have a whole horizon.” When the little boy was finishing, his father was speechless.

His son added, “Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are!”

Our outlook on life depends on the way you look at things. What others may think as riches, others may want. The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life. If you have these then you have everything