July 4th — ONE OF GOD'S GREAT DON'TS
July 4th.ONE OF GOD'S GREAT DON'TS
"Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil doing." Psalm 37:8 (R.V.) Fretting means getting out at elbows mental y or spiritual y. 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 wil work nowhere. This "don't" must work in days of perplexity as wel as in days of peace, or it never wil work. And if it wil not work in your particular case, it wil not work in anyone else's case.
Resting in the Lord does not depend on external circumstances at al , 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 real y wise we are; it is much more an indication of how real y 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 al "supposing" on one side and dwel in the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tel God that you wil not fret about that thing. Al our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.