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July 4, 2008
ONE OF GOD'S GREAT DON'TS
Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil doing.
Psalms 37:8
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=ps+37:8&sr=1
Fretting means getting out at elbows mentally or spiritually. It is
one thing to say "Fret not," but a very different thing to have such
a disposition that you find yourself able not to fret. It sounds so
easy to talk about "resting in the Lord" and "waiting patiently for
Him" until the nest is upset - until we live, as so many are doing,
in tumult and anguish, is it possible then to rest in the Lord? If
this "don't" does not work there, it will work nowhere. This "don't"
must work in days of perplexity as well as in days of peace, or it
never will work. And if it will not work in your particular case, it
will not work in anyone else's case. Resting in the Lord does not
depend on external circumstances at all, but on your relationship to
God Himself.
Fussing always ends in sin. We imagine that a little anxiety and
worry are an indication of how really wise we are; it is much more an
indication of how really wicked we are. Fretting springs from a
determination to get our own way. Our Lord never worried and He was
never anxious, because He was not "out" to realize His own ideas; He
was "out" to realize God's ideas. Fretting is wicked if you are a
child of God.
Have you been bolstering up that stupid soul of yours with the idea
that your circumstances are too much for God? Put all "supposing" on
one side and dwell in the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tell
God that you will not fret about that thing. All our fret and worry
is caused by calculating without God.
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