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Larry Lilly's Letter Monday October 3, 2011
Every now and then a statement flies across the page, TV or the radio and at first thought it seems trite, until you Selah, pause and ponder, and then the depth of that which seemed shallow breaks upon your muse.
One such phrase interrupted my thoughts the other day as I was strangely enough musing upon my life/dream hindrances. These dream killers come dressed in two packages but get the same negative result. The gem was on an old fashioned wall plaque with a black background and white letters. See what you think:
"People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage you."
Certainly the first personage to break upon the oatmeal like brain will be Satan officially known as the adversary, the one who hinders and it must be acknowledged that he is very good at what he does. The main reason is that he knows he is bound with chains of darkness, the awful realization that he will never be saved that he is not a candidate for the salvation that is in Christ. Hence his dream of being equal or superior to God will never be realized so he makes a career of hindering those who have unlimited opportunities in Jesus.
When people make a career of hindering others this attempt to hinder can be such as is currently seen in China, Iran and maybe soon in our country by killing dreamers. The premise being that if we do what Big Brother tells we do not need a dream.
Other more subtle hindrances are passive/aggressive types who attack via victimhood. A passive/aggressive person has never been known to accept responsibility for their choices, but will always place blame and if you're the one to whom they are speaking it is you who is their problem. This is especially true if you happen to be in some authority over them. This kind of hindrance is being played to the max by both political parties.
One of the main hindrances to achievement besides your self is what I call the Great Time Wasters. This one dresses in many costumes, but when you are finished, only momentarily talking or counseling with them, all that is accomplished is they have succeeded in wasting your time yet again and you have spent your most valuable commodity while permitting this attack. I speak of your time.
For years I have kept a daily journal. Several years ago I examined my Pastor's Journal (Record of conversations with our church members) for the previous year and noted that I had spent more time with one man than I had with the entire church and also the responders to my daily letters. You would think that the enormous amount of time spent with me would have produced a spiritual giant. No such luck. He was as miserable as ever, but in one sense I was better for according to his constant spewing of information I knew that if we could get the government and the man's wife to see things his way all would be well in God's creation. No man has ever succeeded in either of these dreams. I promised that I will not waste my time ever again listening to such waster's of time. This is an easy promise to make; keeping it is a horse of a different color.
Psalms 90:12 "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."
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