Me: What are you looking up?
Prodigal: Reading the news, just so much to worry about.
Me: Yes, I believe focusing too much on the bad will lead us to a lot of worry.
Prodigal: What should I do then?
Me: I have something that I read that might be helpful to you.
Simple Faith by Charles Swindoll
It has been my observation that worries are basically dissatisfied people. Something is never quite right. When one thing is fixed, something else is never quite right. Contentment with the way things are, even knowing that God could change them if He wished, is a mind-set that is foreign to the worrier. What is not enjoyed because of what could be. Whoever chooses to live like that should be ready for a lifetime of dissatisfaction.
What should I focus on today Lord? Well of course I should look to you! How about when the sad news of the world comes to my ears and makes my heart mourn? Well then I know that you first mourned for sin before I was born. How about when suffering comes my way because I am speaking your truths? Well then how could I forget you suffered more than I have. So then I guess I am left with looking at you Lord and being content that you are all I need!
Luke 15:4-5
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
