Do you feel as if you’re burning out in your service for God? You may want to supply spiritual light to your dark world till the end of your life, but you wonder if you can. You won’t burn out if you understand and apply the truth of Zechariah 4:1-6.
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As I sat looking at my beehives, I was especially interested in the activities of a considerable number of bees that seemed to be busybodies. They were always buzzing, going in and out of the hive, but doing no apparent work. These nonproductive ones are called drones. They are male bees—much larger than a worker or even the queen. Their only function is to fertilize a queen and then die.
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How could this happen? How could God allow our beautiful daughter Melissa to be taken from us in a car accident at age 17? And it’s not just us. It’s also our friends Steve and Robyn, whose daughter Lindsay, Melissa’s friend, died 9 months earlier. And what about Richard and Leah, whose son Jon—another of Melissa’s friends—lies in a gravesite within 50 yards of both Lindsay and Melissa?
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Perhaps you know someone who didn’t receive the inheritance intended by a parent because of a faulty will. In an article titled “Money & The Law,” attorney Jim Flynn says that if you want your estate to go to your chosen recipients instead of to members of the legal profession, you should avoid do-it-yourself wills. Such documents are usually legal but they are often unclear and fail to make provisions for unforeseen situations. Flynn advises having a formal will to be sure your wishes are carried out.
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Years ago I was an extremely anxious Christian. When I began spiraling downward emotionally, God didn’t intervene, for He knew I needed to reach the end of myself. When I finally hit rock bottom, the “rock” on which I fell was Jesus Christ.
The Lord immediately began rebuilding me, applying truths from His Word to teach me trust and faith. Gradually He changed me into the joyful, God-dependent person He intended me to be. Through this painful but profitable experience, I learned that when God disciplines us, our greatest gain isn’t what we get but what we become.
A poor man in Ireland was plodding along toward home, carrying a huge bag of potatoes. A horse and wagon finally drew up alongside him on the road, and the driver invited the man to climb aboard. After getting on the wagon, he sat down but continued to hold the heavy bag.
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There have been some horrendous defeats in sports history, but none more convincing than Cumberland’s 222-0 loss to Georgia Tech in 1916. It was the worst college football defeat ever, and the young men of Cumberland must have been devastated.
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We were in a small boat on the far side of the lake and the fish were biting when we heard a rumble of thunder in the distance. Looking up, we saw a mass of dark clouds in the west.
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Why don’t the stars fall down?” A child may ask that question, but so does an astronomer. And they both get essentially the same answer: A mysterious power or energy upholds everything and prevents our cosmos from collapsing into chaos.
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Charles Plumb was sitting in a restaurant when a man came up to him and said, “You’re Plumb. You flew jet fighters in Vietnam. You were on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!” “How in the world did you know all that?” asked Plumb. The man, who had been on the same ship, replied, “I packed your parachute.” Then he added, “I guess it worked.” “Indeed it did,” said Plumb.
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