Today's promise: God's timing is perfect
No need to worry
Let heaven fill your
thoughts. Do not think only about things down here on earth.
Colossians 3:2 NLT
Worry is the interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
Author unknown
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
Henry Ward Beecher
Lessons of a circuit rider
When Abraham Lincoln was
on his way to Washington to be inaugurated, he spent some time in New York with
Horace Greeley and told him an anecdote that was meant to be an answer to the
question everybody was asking him: Are we really going to have civil war?
In his circuit-riding
days, Lincoln and his companions, riding to the next session of court, had
crossed many rivers. But the Fox River was still ahead of them; and they said
one to another, "If these streams gives us so much trouble, how shall we
get over the Fox River?"
When darkness fell, they
stopped for the night at a log tavern, where they fell in with the Methodist
presiding elder of the district, who rode through the country in all kinds of
weather and knew all about the Fox River. They gathered around him and asked
him about the present state of the river.
"Oh, yes,"
replied the circuit rider, "I know all the Fox River. I have crossed it
often and understand it well. But I have one fixed rule with regard to the Fox
River — I never cross it till I reach it."
from 1001 Great Stories and Quotes by R. Kent
Hughes (Tyndale) pp 430-31
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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