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Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
Stop and Smell the Roses
"... Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ..." (v. 28,
RSV)
-- For reading & meditation: Matthew 6:25-34
Another principle that helps us cope with stress is this: Seek to
overcome any rigidity in your personality. You can best understand
rigidity by comparing it with its opposite - flexibility. A more formal
definition of rigidity is this: "The inability or refusal to change
one's actions or attitudes even though objective conditions indicate
that a change is desirable."
The rigid person clings to certain ways of thinking and acting, even
when they are injurious to the personality and burn up their emotional
energy. Someone described it as similar to driving a car with the brakes
on. Take the housewife who worries herself into a migraine attack
because she cannot maintain a scrupulously tidy home while her
grandchildren are visiting. Or the businessman who triggers off another
gastric ulcer because he falls behind with his schedule when his
secretary is away sick.
Inflexible goals can be crippling fetters. It's no good saying,
"But there are things that have to be done, and if I don't do them, they
just won't get done." Perhaps you need to rearrange your priorities,
adjust your lifestyle and learn to say "no."
As someone put it, "We must not drive so relentlessly forward that we
cannot stop and smell the roses by the wayside." You may be caught up in
the midst of one of the busiest weeks of your year, but pause for a
moment and ask yourself: am I driving, or am I being driven? Am I in
control of my personality, or is it in control of me?
Today, decide to take a step away from rigidity by pausing to "smell a
rose."
PRAYER:
O God, I am now at grips with the raw material of living; out of it
must come a person - Your person. Help me to be rigid only in
relation to You, and flexible about everything else. For Jesus' sake.
Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Gen. 1; 2:1-3; Heb. 4:1-11; Ps. 37:7; Matt. 11:29
1. What was man's first day?
2. How can we enter into God's rest?
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