Journey with Him

Sunday, January 17, 2010 @10:48 PM

Several ways to make yourself miserable

1. Count your troubles, name them one by one-at breakfast table, if anyone will listen, or as soon as possible thereafter

2. Worry every day about something. Don't let yourself get out of practice. It won't add a cubit to your stature bit it might burn a few calories.

3. Pity yourself. If you do enough of this, nobody else will have to do it for you.

4. Devise clever but decent ways to serve God and mammon. After all, a man's gotta live.

5. Stay away from absolutes. It's what right for you that matters. Be your own person and don't allow yourself to get hung up on what others expect of you.

6. Make sure you get your rights. Never mind other people's. You have your life to live, they have theirs.

7. Don't fall into any compassion traps-the sort of situation where people can walk all over you. If you get too involved in other's troubles, you may neglect your own.

8. Don't let bible reading and prayer get in the way of what's really relevant-things like TV and newspapers. Invisible things are eternal. You want to stick with the visible ones-they are where its at now.

by Elisabeth Elliot (from Keep a Quiet Heart)

Want to be miserable? Actively practice the above..if not..do the the below:

Several ways to make yourself contented

1. DONT Count your troubles, DONT name them one by one-at breakfast table, if anyone will listen, or as soon as possible thereafter. Trust God in them. Godliness with contentment is great gain :)

2. DONT Worry every day about something. Don't let yourself get out of practice. It won't add a cubit to your stature bit it might burn a few calories. Do not be worry and anxious about anything and everything but in supplication and prayer!

3. DONT Pity yourself. If you do enough of this, nobody else will have to do it for you.

4. NO POINT Devising a clever but decent ways to serve God and mammon. After all, a man's gotta live by having faith in our God who is our provider.

5. Stay away from absolutes if you have no comment. It's what right for you that matters. Be your own person and don't allow yourself to get hung up on what others expect of you.

6. DON'T fight for your rights. Thats pride. Mind other people's. Thats Grace. After all, you don't want God to think for His rights before He die for you on the cross right?

7.BE compassionate -Everyone needs it. You need it too.

.8. LET Bible reading and prayer get in the way of what's really irrelevant-things like TV and newspapers. Invisible things are eternal. That why You don't want to stick with the visible ones-they are where its at now.

With Words added by Dawn Ang