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A thought by Max Lucado from his book, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World (Kindle Location 867). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) That’s a good thought isn’t?   I haven’t ever really stopped and tried to come up for a reason why that is true but Max has. He says, “Your future matters more than your past. God’s grace is greater than your sin. What you did was not good. But your God is good. And he will forgive you. He is ready to write a new chapter in your life. Say with Paul, ‘Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God is calling us’ (Phil. 3:13–14 TLB).” He then says, “Denalyn and I enjoyed a nice dinner at a local restaurant the other night. About the same time we received our bill, we received a visit from a church member. He spotted us and came over to say hello. After we chatted for a moment, he reached

A thought by Max Lucado from his book, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World (Kindle Location 608). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. We live in a world of anxiety, don’t we?   I mean, don’t you watch TV or read Facebook?       Max says, “So what do we do? Control everything? Never board a plane without a parachute. Never enter a restaurant without bringing your own clean silverware. Never leave the house without a gas mask. Never give away your heart for fear of a broken one. Never step on a crack lest you break your mother’s back. Face anxiety by taking control. If only we could.” He goes on, “That’s why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can’t take control because control is not ours to take.” He then says, “The Bible has a better idea. Rather t

A thought by Max Lucado (2012-12-31) from his book, Next Door Savior: Near Enough to Touch, Strong Enough to Trust (p. 22). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) I don’t know what you are going through today.   I’ve been a lot of places and been through a lot of things in my 70 years but I haven’t been everywhere, I haven’t experienced everything.   But Jesus has. Max says, “Jesus has been there. He experienced ‘all the pain, all the testing’ (Heb. 2: 18 MSG). Jesus was angry enough to purge the temple, hungry enough to eat raw grain, distraught enough to weep in public, fun loving enough to be called a drunkard, winsome enough to attract kids, weary enough to sleep in a storm-bounced boat, poor enough to sleep on dirt and borrow a coin for a sermon illustration, radical enough to get kicked out of town, responsible enough to care for his mother, tempted enough to know the smell of Satan, and fearful enough to sweat blood.