SeniorSeeker
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Dear friends,
My sister shared this with me today and, with all the pressures of today's world, I felt it was important enough to share with each of you. I sincerely hope you agree.
I just read an article on the USA Today website about carryon baggage on airlines, detailing the difficulties compounded by full flights, fees for checking baggage, and inconsistent adherence to the rules for one piece of small carryon baggage per passenger. The traveling businessman has more than one kind of overhead to think about. It sounds like a minor nightmare for attendants and passengers alike, making me thankful that I rarely fly these days. But I have my own problem with carrying too much baggage and it has nothing to do with airplanes. God has a one-piece regulation concerning the baggage I am to carry. As Presbyterian pastor Theodore Cuyler (1822-1909) put it, "God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them." (The airlines are concerned that Boeing has never built overhead bins strong enough to carry today's crammed load of suitcases.) My one piece of baggage is labeled "today." Its shape, size, and weight is always the same--twenty-four hours. And if Reverend Cuyler (Pastor Ted in today's idiom) thought piling tomorrow on top of today was too much, what about when I add the third piece called "yesterday." Yesterday's guilt, today's duties, tomorrow's anxieties. I would have to be a biblical Samson-ite to carry that load. Sounds like three strikes and I'm out. I think God wants me to check yesterday and tomorrow at the gate, and like Southwest Airlines and Jet Blue, He charges nothing for that service.
Verses for the day:
Who can add a single hour (let alone day) to his life? Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:27,34)
My sister shared this with me today and, with all the pressures of today's world, I felt it was important enough to share with each of you. I sincerely hope you agree.
I just read an article on the USA Today website about carryon baggage on airlines, detailing the difficulties compounded by full flights, fees for checking baggage, and inconsistent adherence to the rules for one piece of small carryon baggage per passenger. The traveling businessman has more than one kind of overhead to think about. It sounds like a minor nightmare for attendants and passengers alike, making me thankful that I rarely fly these days. But I have my own problem with carrying too much baggage and it has nothing to do with airplanes. God has a one-piece regulation concerning the baggage I am to carry. As Presbyterian pastor Theodore Cuyler (1822-1909) put it, "God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them." (The airlines are concerned that Boeing has never built overhead bins strong enough to carry today's crammed load of suitcases.) My one piece of baggage is labeled "today." Its shape, size, and weight is always the same--twenty-four hours. And if Reverend Cuyler (Pastor Ted in today's idiom) thought piling tomorrow on top of today was too much, what about when I add the third piece called "yesterday." Yesterday's guilt, today's duties, tomorrow's anxieties. I would have to be a biblical Samson-ite to carry that load. Sounds like three strikes and I'm out. I think God wants me to check yesterday and tomorrow at the gate, and like Southwest Airlines and Jet Blue, He charges nothing for that service.
Verses for the day:
Who can add a single hour (let alone day) to his life? Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:27,34)