I love to read the comics each day. In the funny pages you see real life drawn about. From time to time I will clip a comic out and give it to my wife. This particular comic strip will remind me of how my girls act sometimes. It’s true that life imitates the arts. We see television shows that remind us of situations we go through. Only when we deal with things, it’s not so funny. But it should be! If we could lighten up and realize it’s never as serious as we make it out to be. When we look back on that situation we have a tendency to look back with laughter. It’s funny after the fact but it is never so funny when are in that situation. But, we make more out of it than we should.
Things have a way of working out. How many times have you or I had something that we were facing and that thing seemed so overwhelming that you didn’t want to face it, yet it came and it was no big deal. Most of the time we make more out of our situations than we ought. God surely takes care of us continually. That is a large part of the reason he says in Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life,” When our bank account runs low and it seems as if there is not enough to pay our bills panic seems to hit us. If we could be like Beetle Bailey and not have a care in the world.
This is the way God intended us to live. When he created man in the beginning he gave him everything he needed without any cares. Because Adam sinned we took on things God never intended us to suffer. As a child of God we must get back to that place of the garden existence where we allow our heavenly Father to care for us. Now I am aware of the time of year where we stress out with shopping and spending for Christmas. But we must be at peace for he is the reason for the season. And he is the Prince of Peace!
One of my favorite television shows of all time is “Seinfield” a show about nothing. Where they made fun of everyday things that happen. If they were to write a show based on your life would it be about all the stress you live with daily or the joy of waking up each day and facing some great and interesting challenges?
Today is a new day! It’s like no other day we’ve ever lived before. We must face today and live our life as we face new and exciting challenges today. We are about to embark on another new year. It is a year that none of us have faced before. We must enter this new year with a different mindset than this past year. If we could go into this year facing each day as life in the funny pages where our care is not in life itself but the life we have in Christ. It’s a new day!
Samuel King, Senior Pastor
Christlike Life Church, Laveen, AZ.
