Silence is Easy - May 1, 2008

Good morning and welcome to the first day of May, sometimes known as May Day. Yes, fully one-third of the year has passed into history. Today, I looked back upon the year and wonder if I missed any opportunities by consuming valuable time in worry. At times it may seem best to keep our problems and worries inside our own minds, but that may not be the best solution. Silence is easy, but sharing carries a risk of scorn. We fear that scorn though we know from Jesus that we should not. Silence is easy, but sharing takes the burden down to the cross. Share your worries with Jesus and He may lead you to share with friends and loved ones. We all face problems and worries. Sharing with each other may shed new light on those worries,,, they may shrivel in that light.

I have in the past worried about what someone else might think or say. Sharing with a trusted friend in Christ has often shown my worries to be at best only partially true and often flat out wrong. None of us can ever predict what another person will say or do with 100% accuracy; we are all human and surprise each other often. The worries about conflict with others, condemnation from a boss, or a lack of compassion from friends often do not come to pass and turn out to be nothing but empty worries. Those empty worries are self-destructive. If an imagined worry does come to pass, we have then endured it twice, once for real and once in our imagination. Did the imagining do any good? Most likely it did not! Trust only in Jesus, and not in those worries.

Today, for some odd reason, the thought came to me that we cannot lose a contest in Jesus. If you win, take a lottery for example, then God has granted a great blessing to you financially and that is for the best. If you lose a contest, say a team competition, then God has a great blessing in store for you and His way is always the best. Did you get less of a raise than you thought you should, or perhaps no raise at all this year? God has something great in store for you! Did you receive a much greater raise than you expected? Then use it responsibly and to the glory of God the Father!

Praise God for the blessings He gives!

Bucky