Endurance - May 15, 2010

Good Saturday morning! We have some rain again this morning; praise God for the moisture! This morning I wonder how we make it through this life? What mechanisms can we use to endure? I use comic strips to help get me started each morning. If the comic strippers do a poor job one morning, I could have trouble all day long. Some of you use coffee to get started, and keep going, through each day. I often mischievously thought of replacing the regular coffee with decaf to see what would happen to the workforce on a given day, but I would hate to be declared a national terror threat. We don't have the Great Depression, but we do have a Great Recession in our lives; how do we endure?

Mysterious medical maladies might massacre my mostly marvelous moods; how do I endure the strain of that? How do you endure the strain of my alliteration? Have you ever had enough of anything to be satisfied in this world? This is of course with the exception of the many times you might have enjoyed too much of something to be satisfied. I've noticed that it doesn't take an enormous amount of water in a person's basement to be too much. The same amount of water on your garden is gone in very little time and you must ask for more rain or irrigate. The good things in this life seem fleeting, the bad things seem to hang on for an eternity; how do we endure?

Making light of medical problems might cause a coworker to superstitiously predict your untimely demise. How do we endure the Dark Ages beliefs or our coworkers? First of all we must realize the cause of all that we must endure. We are fallen creatures in a fallen world. Sin stains most everything we see in this world. However, there is an answer to the question of sin and endurance. We find redemption in the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus, and we find the strength to endure through His Holy Spirit. The answer seems too simple, but there it is.

Enjoy the weekend!

Bucky