The List
A friend gave me a book called “11,002 Things to Be
Miserable About”. It consists of page
after page of things that are humorous and not so humorous such as:
Segregation
Rotten bananas
Bats that get stuck in your hair
Burnt toast
Running out of oxygen at the top of Mt Everest
Some of the things listed are laugh out loud topics and some
things give me pause, but it’s the things not mentioned that truly make me feel
miserable.
Things like:
The lost perishing without making Jesus the Lord of their
lives,
The gospel being against to law in certain countries,
Prayer being banned in public schools,
Not being allowed to display a nativity scene in a public
place.
To someone else, is my list as trivial as the one that lists
“split ends”, “bridezillas”, and “road rage”?
We all have our own personal lists of upsetting things. The
crucial question is, what to do about it? Maybe I can’t do much about my own
list but one thing I can do is put it to prayer because if there IS something I
can and should do, God will reveal it. Then
the next question is- will I obey?
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