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Worth the "weight"

Robert H. Schuller

"The Lord disciplines those he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his child." – Hebrews 12:6

I like the story of the man who had a one-hundred-year-old grandfather clock with a huge weight at the bottom. He watched as the old clock pushed that weight back and forth, back and forth. One day he thought, "That's a terrible burden for such an old clock to bear." So he opened the glass case and lifted the huge weight off to relieve the old antique's burden.

"Why do you take my weight off?" the old clock asked.

The old man replied, "I know it's a burden to you."

Then the old clock exclaimed, "Oh, no! My weight is what keeps me going."

God lets us experience frustrations and burdens in life to help us learn patience, cause us to depend more on him, and to teach us humility. It is often the "weights" that keep us going!


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What "weights" in your life is God using to develop your character?

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Devotions taken from the
"Power for Life Daily Devotional"

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  1. johnhedder writes:

    40 years of exclusion in varying degrees, by my siblings! Black sheep synd.

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    10/28/2009 03:32:02
  2. Frawg writes:

    I have a 17 year old son that was using all kinds of drugs from meth, to cocaine. The weight I carry is making sure he is safe. I turned him in to the police. He is an inpatient at a fine facillity and is vowing to stay away from the drugs and the people he was using with. Even though that weight has lifted a little, I still worry about him and am finding repercussions from his drug spree.

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    10/28/2009 06:16:45
  3. Gmalinny writes:

    4 weeks ago today we found out my husband has lung cancer stage 3b. He is 89 years old, so treatmet is not an option. I pray he is good as long as possible and can stay home. When it is time I pray it is quick. He has not accepted Christ to my knowledge, so I am praying for that most of all.

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    10/28/2009 08:42:30
  4. dale025 writes:

    I am perplexed but comforted to know that God uses burdens and tribulations in our lives to help us to lean on him. Trials help to learn and remember that he Cares

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    10/28/2009 12:27:33
  5. Mom2Grandma writes:

    My weight is my children , grown and constantly going against the grain. Why oh why, I'll never know. It's like the good life isn't good enough for one of them and we are the last to know anything in the other one's life. Life was good when they were small...............Now they are a bigger weight for some reason.

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    10/28/2009 12:28:57
  6. RobertOverstreet writes:

    It is so true, what is said in today's meditation! Burdens really are God's tools to keep us going because we learn to cast them on Him along the way. May the Lord always enable us to do that for his glory. Robert Overstreet

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    10/31/2009 08:22:15

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