Scripture
Luke 4:18
Nehemiah 8:2-6,8-10; Psalms 19:8-10,15; I Corinthians 12:12-30; Luke 1:1-4;4:14-21
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A man who conducted one of those “get rich” seminars was relaxing in an out-of-the-way little retreat, hidden among pine trees. “It was just past noon,” he said, “late July, and I was listening to the desperate struggle going on four feet away”…
“There was a small fly burning out the last of its short life’s energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of a windowpane. The fluttering wings tell the poignant story of the fly’s strategy: Try harder! But it wasn’t working. The frenzied efforts offered no hope for liberation. Ironically, the fly was trapped by its struggle to be free. The fly was doomed. It would die on the windowsill.
“Across the room, ten steps away, the door was open. A few seconds of flying time and this small creature could have achieved the liberation it was seeking. It could have freed itself of this self-imposed trap. How did it get so locked in on the notion that this particular…
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