Ignorant Historian

1.  Are there any animals you refuse to touch?

I’ll touch anything, assuming a trainer is holding it, blah, blah, blah.  But will I hold any animals? Not really (the occasional small dog or cat, sure).

2.  Would you like to know the precise date of your future death?

Yes, I would.  But as soon as you told me, I wouldn’t.  The building anticipation in the years, months, and weeks before that date would be awful.

3.  What is made for kids but you love it anyway?

Lip Smacker lip gloss.  Hopelessly addicted to them.  Go through a “party pack” every couple of months.

4.  Ever been addicted to a video/computer game? Which one(s)?

Only once.  Sims 2, senior year of college.  After playing it more and more over a couple of months at the end of my first semester, I realized I had to give it up.  Thankfully, it was a friend’s game on her computer, so I didn’t have easy access to it.  I think I really liked it because I got to control a world.  It was basically the techie version of what I did as a child: make up names, ages, traits, etc of my many imaginary children.

5.  __ is life. The rest is just details. Fill in the blank.

Jesus.

Yesterday I was listening to the Neal Boortz radio show, and he was talking to a smoker about quitting smoking. Neal said, “It is completely within your power to do it.” As much as I do often enjoy Neal’s show, I have a problem with this statement.

To all those who struggle with an addiction: it is most likely not within you power to overcome it. You may have tried many times to quit, but find yourself unable. This is not because you need to look deeper for your inner strength or you don’t have the right program, or even that you don’t have enough support from those around you. The problem is that you are not tapping into the right source of power.

God offers that kind of help and power. The Bible tells us:

And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
(2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NASU)

If you are struggling don’t look inside yourself for your “inner strength,” but look to the One who is all-powerful. That is where true hope lies.

Ronnica
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