I'm deeply persuaded that the secret to a confident heart and a peaceful night of sleep isn't a secret at all. Rather, it's plain-and-simple theology. By that, I mean trusting foundational principles that God lays out in his Word. Here are five:
1. Accept The Chaos
We have a miniscule amount of control in a gargantuan universe. Each day will provide fresh trouble (Matthew 6:34). The more we try to manipulate the situations, locations, and relationships of life, the more we'll become exhausted and discouraged. Live responsibly and be wise, but recognize that you were not designed to govern this world.
2. Know The Facts
Even though I just told you to accept the chaos, the Bible actually declares that everything in the universe is managed with complete and specific authority (Acts 17:26). Nothing is chaotic in God's eyes; he is never confused or taken off-guard. When we tell ourselves otherwise, it makes sense that we'll be stressed and anxious.
3. Trust The Father
God is more than just a ruling deity, exercising his sovereign power of people and places. The Bible tells us that he is also good and will give his children everything we need and more (see Matthew 6:26-32 and 7:9-11). Your life is secure is the hands of a powerful and loving Father.
4. Pursue Spiritual Disciplines
In the midst of trials, it's very tempting to abandon the spiritual disciplines of your faith and try to make it on your own. Pray, fast, meditate on and memorize Scripture, and keep attending worship services and small groups. Immerse yourself in God, his Spirit, his Word, and his body of believers.
5. Know Your Limits
Too many Christians fret trying to decipher God's secret will for their lives. It's a secret, after all! Instead, we should rest within the clear limits of what God has made known to us. Let God be God, and let him establish our steps (Proverbs 16:9).
You and I can sleep because God is wise, loving, and powerful. He is in moment-by-moment control of every detail of our lives.
Sharia in action. Women tied and beat up by men at their whim.
All while the entire group of men are watching this as entertainment.
And these are the people we're bringing in to 'enhance' our culture.
Man, this is beautiful. A life adorning the gospel.
Listen to what @StevenBartlett—host of one of the world’s most popular podcasts—says to Christian apologist John Lennox.
🚨🇺🇸 DOGE ACCOUNT CONNECTS THE DOTS: FROM BLACK HAWK DOWN TO MINNESOTA FRAUD, 30 YEARS IN THE MAKING
The official DOGE State account just dropped a brutal history lesson.
October 3, 1993. Mogadishu, Somalia. US elite forces, Delta operators and Rangers, drop in for what was supposed to be a 30-minute raid to capture lieutenants of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who was hijacking UN food aid.
Things went sideways fast.
Somali militias with RPGs blasted two Black Hawk helicopters out of the sky.
A quick op turned into an 18-hour urban nightmare.
Block-by-block fighting against thousands.
18 US troops killed. 73 wounded.
Somali losses in the hundreds.
The worst part: mobs dragged American bodies through the streets, mutilating and parading them on television.
Images that horrified the world and crushed US public support overnight.
Clinton pulled forces out by 1994.
Then came resettlement.
Tens of thousands of Somalis brought to the US throughout the '90s.
Major communities built in Minnesota and Ohio.
Fast forward 30 years.
Those same communities are now ground zero for the largest fraud scandal in American history.
$9 billion allegedly siphoned from Minnesota alone.
Daycare schemes.
Nutrition program fraud.
Money sent to Kenya and allegedly to Al-Shabaab.
DOGE's point: These policies have consequences that span decades.
From Black Hawk Down to the Quality Learing Center.
The thread is longer than most realize.
Source: HistoryState, Slate, PBS
Video: @WarMonitorClips
@DrOakley1689 A debate with Alex O'Connor would be awesome. I've just watched https://t.co/v7ZMcKkiHV and Denesh D'Souza is bleeding all over the place.
Red Cross in 1944: “We found no trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners in Auschwitz” 👇
Red Cross in 2023: “We found no evidence of weapons or hostages being kept in hospitals in Gaza”
When you're high on fentanyl you get something called the nods. Effectively you are able to stand in the full upright position, like this guy today in the middle of Market street, and just bend your neck at almost a full 90 degree angle. You're still conscious but almost in a zombie like trance state.
This is also called public intoxication (which is illegal). This kid needs help. He needs to be in treatment. He needs to be back with his family. Rather than get him the help that he needs though, the city of San Francisco (in the almighty name of "body autonomy") will just allow him to keep doing drugs out on the street until he eventually overdoses and dies.
This is somebody's son, somebody's brother, somebody's grandchild, maybe even somebody's father. When these addicts overdose and die they leave a huge hole in the families of those that they leave behind. I know, heroin took my younger brother's life.
Compassion is getting this kid into treatment even if he doesn't want to go to treatment. Compassion is getting this kid off the hellscape of drugs that is the streets of San Francisco. If he stays on the streets of San Francisco there is very little hope. It's just a matter of time.
They mix something called xylazine aka tranq, (it's an animal tranquilizer) in with the fentanyl that they sell out on the streets of San Francisco these days. Tranq is horrible. It causes your hands and feet to literally rot off your body. A lot of addicts have to have amputations after doing too much fentanyl/tranq.
The thing is, this kid has a chance still. San Francisco could arrest him for public intoxication and then give him a bus ticket back to his family or put him in mandatory treatment.
But the hard left body autonomy crowd is anything but compassionate -- and unfortunately we don't have the political courage to help this kid in San Francisco.
Instead we make excuses and listen to all the drug apologists and do nothing and more and more and more people die every single day.
Meanwhile our governor @GavinNewsom is off in China (where 90% of our fentanyl comes from -- either directly or through the cartel on the southern border) getting his "warm welcome" from their leader Chairman Xi who is poisoning our youth while they are buddying it up together.
Shameful.