A Warning For Me

Happy President's Day! Is that the correct greeting for today? Yesterday, I watched a documentary wherein a rock star back in the seventies spoke of the aging of presidents during their term in office. We don't know all the reasons, but I suspect that part of the using up of a president is in the amount of information available to him while in office. Today, I thought that I would warn me about this information problem, and I invite you to listen in.

Bucky,

The amount of information available today is potentially dangerous for you. Every person's disaster should not be reported in the news. Yet, somewhere, even the car accident on a lonely road of a rural state is reported in the media. Deaths and statistics bring to mind your own experience and reinforce that experience in your mind. The outlets for news of this type are now too great for a person to absorb and process. In any one day, tens or hundreds of people will die in tragic ways, you do not need to know all of that, leave it with God.

The Internet, while a wonderful tool for research, only increases the amount of information of the wrong type available on a daily basis. Work with caution in this new medium! Above all, do not repeat these tragic stories as others may have anxiety over events that do not cause the same in you. For those news stories you do see because of their near ubiquity, pray for the families and the victims, but move on - do not memorize the details or imagine them in your mind. Only God knows all the details of an incident, capture the thoughts and leave it in His care.

Jesus said, "You trust in God, now trust in Me." This is not only the good news, but it is better news than what is all too common in our media. Learn to spend more time in God's word, the Bible. Yes, you are to be watchful, but that does not mean that you must carry the burden of every war, rumor of war, earthquake, shooting, tragic accident, terrorist attack, or natural disaster with you in imaginary visions of 'what if?' situations. It is okay to leave that which is too great for you in the hands of your great and awesome God.

Have a renewing day in Christ Jesus,
Your friend in Christ,
Bucky