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6/4–Start Your Day Off Right Series

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Will Rogers was known for his laughter, but he also knew how to weep. One day he was entertaining at the Milton H. Berry Institute in Los Angeles, a hospital that specialized in rehabilitating polio victims and people with broken backs and other extreme physical handicaps

 Of course, Rogers had everybody laughing, even patients in really bad condition; but then he suddenly left the platform and went to the rest room. Milton Berry followed him to give him a towel; and when he opened the door, he saw Will Rogers leaning against the wall, sobbing like a child. He closed the door, and in a few minutes, Rogers appeared back on the platform, as jovial as before. 

If you want to learn what a person is really like, ask three questions: What makes him laugh? What makes him angry? What makes him weep? 

These are fairly good tests of character that are especially appropriate for Christian leaders. I hear people saying, “We need angry leaders today!” or “The time has come to practice militant Christianity!” Perhaps, but “the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God” (James 1:20). 

What we need today is not anger but anguish, the kind of anguish that Moses displayed when he broke the two tablets of the law and then climbed the mountain to intercede for his people, or that Jesus displayed when He cleansed the temple and then wept over the city. The difference between anger and anguish is a broken heart. It’s easy to get angry, especially at somebody else’s sins; but it’s not easy to look at sin, our own included, and weep over it. 

Warren W. Wiersbe, The Integrity Crisis, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1991, pp. 75-76.

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Scripture:

Proverbs 24:6-10

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war:

and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Wisdom is too high for a fool:

he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

He that deviseth to do evil

shall be called a mischievous person.

The thought of foolishness is sin:

and the scorner is an abomination to men.

If thou faint in the day of adversity,

thy strength is small.

Humor:

Why did God create man before woman?

Because He didn’t want any advice on how to do it.

6/4– Can You Spare A Minute?

There was a very cautious man 

Who never laughed or played; 

He never risked, he never tried, 

He never sang or prayed. 

And when he one day passed away 

His insurance was denied; 

For since he never really lived, 

They claimed he never died!

The richest place in the world is the cemetery. It is richer than Fort Knox! There are apologies never made, Love never expressed,  songs never sung, and sermons never preached. Don’t die with your song still within you!!!

I’m not afraid of dying… only to die before I’ve ever lived!

It’s not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. 

 The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with the sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” (Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th US President and 1906 Nobel Peace Prize-winner.)

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A national park ranger in British Columbia has two sets of huge antlers, as wide as a man’s reach locked together. 

Evidently 2 deer began fighting, their antlers locked, and they could not get free. They died due to anger. 

— National Geographic, November, 1985.

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Eccl 7:9. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

6/3–Start Your Day Off Right Series 

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Waiting on Opportunity to Knock   

Waiting on opportunity to arrive– Some people associate the word waiting with a picture of waiting at the bus stop. Opportunity is not just going to magically show up at your door step and knock loudly. I seriously doubt it. Rather, I believe waiting means doing everything that you can do and then (and not until then) expect opportunity to be there. It will take a lot of patience though. Opportunity is made rather than it just happens. Whatever you sow is what you will reap. If you like apples, plan a lot of apple seeds. I love encouragement, so I try to sow a lot of encouragement seeds.

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Scripture:

Lamentations 3:21-26

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

Humor:

A man fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out.

— An empathetic person came along and said, “I feel for you down there.”

— An objective person walked by and said, “It’s logical that someone would fall down there.”

— A Pharisee said, “Only bad people fall into pits.”

—Confucius  .” 

— A mathematician calculated how deep the pit was.

— A news reporter wanted the exclusive story on the pit.

— An IRS agent asked if he was paying taxes on the pit.

— A self-pitying person said, “You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen my pit.”

— A fire-and-brimstone preacher said, “You deserve your pit.”

— Another observed, “The pit is just in your mind.”

— A psychologist noted, “Your mother and father are to blame for your being in that pit.”

— A self-esteem therapist said, “Believe in yourself and you can get out of that pit.”

— A Scientist calculated the pressure in pounds per square inch to get him out of the pit.

— An evolutionist said: “You are a rejected mutant destined to be removed from the evolutionary cycle.”    In other words, he is going to die in the pit, so that he cannot produce any “pit-falling offspring.” 

— A bureaucrat asked if he had a permit to dig a pit. 

— A professor gave him a lecture on:  “The Elementary Principles of the Pit.” 

— A realist said, “That’s a PIT!”

— An optimist said, “Things could be worse.”

— A pessimist claimed, “Things will get worse.” 

Jesus, seeing the man, took him by the hand and lifted him out of the pit. 

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Eph 5:22-33. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

6/2—Start Your Day Off Right Series

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6/2–Laughter Does Good Like A Medicine

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A man fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out.

— An empathetic person came along and said, “I feel for you down there.”

— An objective person walked by and said, “It’s logical that someone would fall down there.”

— A Pharisee said, “Only bad people fall into pits.”

— Confucius said; “If you would have listened to me, you would not be in that pit.”

— A mathematician calculated how deep the pit was.

— A news reporter wanted the exclusive story on the pit.

— An IRS agent asked if he was paying taxes on the pit.

— A self-pitying person said, “You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen my pit.”

— A fire-and-brimstone preacher said, “You deserve your pit.”

— A Christian Scientist observed, “The pit is just in your mind.”

— A psychologist noted, “Your mother and father are to blame for your being in that pit.”

— A self-esteem therapist said, “Believe in yourself and you can get out of that pit.”

— A Scientist calculated the pressure in pounds per square inch to get him out of the pit.

— An evolutionist said: “You are a rejected mutant destined to be removed from the evolutionary cycle.” In other words, he is going to die in the pit, so that he cannot produce any “pit-falling offspring.”

— A bureaucrat asked if he had a permit to dig a pit.

— A professor gave him a lecture on: “The Elementary Principles of the Pit.”

— A realist said, “That’s a PIT!”

— An optimist said, “Things could be worse.”

— A pessimist claimed, “Things will get worse.”

Jesus, seeing the man, took him by the hand and lifted him out of the pit.

Scripture:

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

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