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What kind of worlds will you create today?
In the beginning, God said, "Let there be light." BANG!
Light exploded and shattered into billions of stars
throughout the universe. Then God said, "Let there be this"
and "Let there be that" and everything else came into
existence except you and me. "Then God said, 'Let Us make
man in Our image, according to Our likeness.'" And you and I
popped into view; well, at least Adam and Eve did.
But hold on now—if
God made us in His image, and later confirmed that in Psalm
82:6 by saying "Ye are gods," which Jesus also confirmed in
John 10:34, then maybe, just maybe, it's possible for you
and me to create worlds. "That's crazy," you say. Not really—we
do it every time we tell a story or describe an experience.
Consider.
| Alice was beginning to
get very tired of sitting by her sister on the
bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice
she had peeped into the book her sister was
reading, but it had no pictures or conversations
in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought
Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
So she was considering, in
her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot
day made her feel very sleepy and stupid),
whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain
would be worth the trouble of getting up and
picking the daisies, when suddenly a White
Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so
very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it
so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit
say to itself "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too
late!" (when she thought it over afterwards it
occurred to her that she ought to have wondered
at this, but at the time it all seemed quite
natural); but, when the Rabbit actually took a
watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at
it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her
feet, for it flashed across her mind that she
had never before seen a rabbit with either a
waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it,
and burning with curiosity, she ran across the
field after it, and was just in time to see it
pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down
went Alice after it, never once considering how
in the world she was to get out again. |
And on went Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as
Lewis Carroll, creating a topsy-turvy world for the three
young daughters of Henry Liddell, dean of Christ Church
College. At Liddell's request, Charles had taken them for a
rowing picnic on the Thames River, and he entertained them
by creating an inverted world out of his imagination.
Liddell's 9-year-old daughter was the heroine of the story,
and when they returned home they begged Charles to "please
write the story down." He did —and
since then dozens of millions of young and old have lived
for days, weeks, and months in the upside-down world of
Alice in Wonderland.
But it isn't just our stories or experiences that create
new worlds in the minds and hearts of others—and
of ourselves. If we tell sinners about Jesus Christ and they
receive Him as their Lord and Savior, the world of their
future is far brighter than it would have been. If we speak
encouraging words to others, if we inspire them in some
way, we shift the path of their future from the direction it
was going and make their world-to-come better. In the same
way, if we speak discouraging words to others, tear them
down in some way, we alter their future world and make it
worse.
A marriage, family, or business filled with angry,
discouraging, humiliating words will create a future world
of chaos and ruin. But a marriage, family, or business
filled with encouraging, inspiring, uplifting words will
create a future world of happiness and abundance. The same
is true of the words that you speak to yourself—whether
internally or externally. Selah.
What kind of words will you think or speak today? Those
are the kind of future worlds you will create for yourself
or for others.
Listen and consider: "Finally, brethren, whatever things
are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are
just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely,
whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue
and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate
on these things." And to that we should add, "Speak these
things." |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great person ever complains of lack of opportunity.
Alexander Graham
Bell
When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look
so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do
not see the ones that open for us.
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Consider this:
People go to places where they have already been in
their minds. Where the mind has repeatedly gone, the body
will follow.
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You will never succeed until you stop being afraid to fail.
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