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QUICK FIXES
''When I am old...Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side'' Psalm 71:18
You can go to all sorts of things for comfort to help you feel better, like attacking that family sized Galaxy bar in the fridge. Seek attention from guys or girls so you feel wanted and loved for a while. Go all out on the booze so you can forget everything and just have a laugh. These things though, as good as they may feel at the time, can have real nasty consequences.
These 'quick fixes' don't get rid of the problem. It's like trying to funk up a pair of pumps by customizing them with stickers. Even if they brighten them up for a while, it's not long before they start peeling off and end up making your pumps look worse, until eventually they all fall off and you're just back to the same pumps, only with annoying gluey bits that you're left picking off. The stickers really weren't worth it.
By giving into emotional quick fixes we can be left picking off more problems than we started with. Not gluey bits, but emotional scars and scabs.
God can comfort us from 'every side' of where it hurts. What now? Pray for God's help to resist the quick fixes. When you have a need to feel better, go to the source of all comfort who never gives you nasty withdrawals, only His loving peace and security.
written by Bob Gass
''When I am old...Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side'' Psalm 71:18
You can go to all sorts of things for comfort to help you feel better, like attacking that family sized Galaxy bar in the fridge. Seek attention from guys or girls so you feel wanted and loved for a while. Go all out on the booze so you can forget everything and just have a laugh. These things though, as good as they may feel at the time, can have real nasty consequences.
These 'quick fixes' don't get rid of the problem. It's like trying to funk up a pair of pumps by customizing them with stickers. Even if they brighten them up for a while, it's not long before they start peeling off and end up making your pumps look worse, until eventually they all fall off and you're just back to the same pumps, only with annoying gluey bits that you're left picking off. The stickers really weren't worth it.
By giving into emotional quick fixes we can be left picking off more problems than we started with. Not gluey bits, but emotional scars and scabs.
God can comfort us from 'every side' of where it hurts. What now? Pray for God's help to resist the quick fixes. When you have a need to feel better, go to the source of all comfort who never gives you nasty withdrawals, only His loving peace and security.
written by Bob Gass
