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I have been thinking about that lesson God gave me Wednesday night . . .I promised I would figure it out, so I printed the six lines out and carried it around all day.   It seems pretty straightforward, but it might not be as simple as it seems.

“Get rid of the Distractions . . .”    I put in “Distractions” in my favorite looker-upper (www.biblegateway.com)  and found something in the Amplified Bible.  Mark 4:19 says “Then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless.”    Wow.  That is a mouthful.  Maybe another translation.

Let’s look at the NIV: “but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.”

“Cares and anxieties of the world and Distractions of the age.” = “Worries of this life.”    I put that in my pipe and smoked it a while.

Oh . . . I see now.  Stop Worrying.  It is not productive to God’s work.

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“Trust in the Lord Completely. . .”  Well, that should be a no brainer, right?

TRUST, n.
Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another.

I don’t know about you, but that sounds peaceful. “Resting of the Mind.”

The fear of man brings a snare,
But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe.
Proverbs 29:25 (New King James Version)

If your going to trust anyone, wouldn’t it be God?  God says, “Look, I love you.  I got this.  Trust me.”    Then your cousin’s brother-in-law says, “Man your in trouble.  If I were you I would go nuts . . .”  AND you go nuts.  Here is the problem… when your cousin’s brother-in-law speaks you can see his mouth moving so you know it’s him.  When God speaks, you have to have faith that it’s HIM.   You need to be able to recognize what he says and attribute it to the Lord and not the other guy.

You need to “Keep the Word of God . . .”   To KEEP The WORD, you have to KNOW the WORD.

This is going to take a little more time . . .come back for Part 3