My Devotional Peace Of Mind By Bill Kent, Pastor of Memorial Baptist Church, Sylvania, Georgia | www.sportsspectrum.com|
“Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish everyday life, Morley and Mary Unwin showed incredible hospitality. They alone another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, lowed him to live in their house until he got stronger and was able to provide singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.” — Colossians 3:16 for himself again. Also, John Newton, the writer of “Amazing Grace,” helped Cowper come out of his despair by enlisting Cowper to work together with him >> Sign up here for Sports Spectrum devotionals sent right to your email inbox on a hymn-writing project. As they focused their minds on spiritual truth, Cow<< per improved. They followed the instruction from Scripture for peace of mind. “Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish Before games, many athletes have butterflies in their bellies and some partici- one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, pants get so nauseated that they get dehydrated and struggle to get out on the singing to God with gratitude in your hearts” (Colossians 3:16). field for the action. It is so frustrating to have talent and not be able to use it well because of nervousness about the unknown and the high expectations. We don’t When Jesus saw the woman at the well burdened with her sins and spiritually know all the reasons why some people have more anxiety than others. Some- dehydrated, He spoke refreshing words and promised her a better life now, and times, people inherit tendencies to worry excessively from parents, or trauma also eternal life. As water refreshes our bodies, the Word of God revives our from bullying and other bad experiences that contributes to anxiety disorders. souls. “Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I It is not unusual for dedicated believers to wrestle with doubts, fears, anxiety give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life’” (John and depression. The prophet Elijah wanted his life to end prematurely when he 4:13-14). felt all alone after Queen Jezebel threatened to have him executed for opposing the worship of Baal. King David had big mood swings and his divinely-inspired psalms reflect his strong emotions as he dealt with enemies, unreliable friends and ungrateful children. Another psalmist expressed similar frustrations: “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God” (Psalm 42:5). During times when English hymn writer William Cowper couldn’t cope with
TT 176 | November 8th - November 14th | 2022
