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ISSUE 7 7 INSIDE this issue A CHRISTMAS Masterpiece...................... page 2 GOOD NEWS Life is not about you......... page 3 THE BENEFITS of Breakdowns.................. page 5 LIVING BEYOND the Daily Grind.................. page 7 ... and much more PAGE 1 in this by CHARLES R. SWINDOLL B efore time began, God had in His mind’s This is the message of Christmas: Because ISSUE eye a masterpiece—a beautiful picture of He loves us, God has come to redeem grace that His beloved Son, the second us—to bring life and colour back to our lives, 3 Good news life is not about you 3 person of the Trinity, would illustrate with to expel the darkness of our hearts and from CHARLES R. SWINDOLL His life. our world. 5 The benefits of breakdowns Even before the breathtaking splendour of On a rescue mission designed by His Father CHARLES R. SWINDOLL creation, God sketched out His plan for His before time began, Jesus silently slipped into perfect fellowship with humanity. But not our world, breathed our air, felt our pain, 7 Living beyond the daily grind 5 CHARLES R. SWINDOLL long after He had splashed colour on the became acquainted with our sorrows, landscape, the deep, dark shadows of man’s suffered and died for our sins . to show us 9 True teamwork...What it takes rebellious choice to live independently of His the way out of our darkness and into His CHARLES R. SWINDOLL grace obscured the beauty of God’s work. glorious light. Coal black, pitch darkness enveloped the 11 Don’t be Afraid scene, and all creation hung in suspense of This Christmas, may you know the warmth CHARLES R. SWINDOLL what God would do. of the Saviour’s love spreading over you as you never have before. May the beauty of the How could God redeem His masterpiece? season remind you of His intense concern for What could rescue us, the pitiful portraits in every detail of your life and His great, sacrificial CHRIS LITTLECHILD 7 CEO Insight For Living whom breathed God’s breath? love for you. Australia Then, with a heart weeping for His people, Merry Christmas from all of us at Insight for Dear Reader, I hope you enjoy this issue of our Insights God dipped His brush in Calvary’s scarlet ink, Living Ministries. ■ magazine. We have worked hard to provide you with wrote His message on a rough wooden banner, a range of thoughtful articles we hope will inspire and 11 challenge you to grow deeper in your knowledge and and pinned it against an empty sky for all the May Christmas remind you _ faith of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ. If you have any world to read. Bold, crimson words: “I love you.” of God’s intense concern stories about your life or experiences you think might be of for every detail of your life. interest and value to our Christian readers, please feel free to send them in to our head office. Charles R. Swindoll serves as the senior pastor-teacher of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas. AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND SOUTH PACIFIC • Insight for Living Australia • Post Office Box443 Boronia, VIC 3155 Australia • 1300 467 444 • www.ifl.org.au• Insight for Living USA • Plano, Texas • www.insight.org • CANADA • Insight for Living Canada • Vancouver • UK AND EUROPE • Insight for Living United Kingdom • Dorking • Copyright © 2016 Insight for Living. All rights reserved worldwide. No portion of this newsletter may be translated into any language or reproduced in any form without prior written permission from the publisher. Insights is published monthly by Insight for Living, the Bible-teaching ministry of Charles R. Swindoll. Insight for Living is an autonomous ministry. • Cover image: ShutterStock • All other pictorial images courtesy of ShutterStock, CanStockPhoto • Australian design - Peter Friend. Printed in Australia. ABN 57813130585. Insight for Living Inc. is an endorsed DGR on the register of Cultural Organisations under Subdivision 30-B of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 for the Insight for Living Development Fund. Donations of $2 or more to this fund are tax-deductible. PAGE 3 then He comes to the front where He belongs. humility prevented him from keeping meticulous have some good news for you: God’s goal Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast I His strength comes to our rescue. He is honoured. records of the wrongs done to him in Rome, is not to make sure you’re happy. No matter about my weaknesses, so that the power of It’s all about Him. or anywhere else for that matter. He was in how hard it is for you to believe this, it’s time Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well prison by divine appointment. Paul understood to do so. content with weaknesses, with insults, with You see, the very things we dread and run that God had prepared his situation before- distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, from in our lives are precisely what brought hand, and the apostle willingly submitted to his Life is not about your being comfortable and for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I contentment to Paul. Don’t miss that as you situation. How could he? It was all about God. happy and successful and rich and pain-free. am strong. That’s it! As Paul sought to fulfil read through Paul’s list: Rather, life is about becoming the person the Great Commission in Europe, he faced Do my words find you today in a place you’d God has called you to be. We will rarely hear innumerable trials. He mentioned only a few. ■ I am content when I lose. rather not be? If you want to learn Paul’s secret that message in much of our consumer-driven Nevertheless, Paul understood what life is ■ I am content when I am weak. of genuine contentment, the perfect place to Christianity today. All the more reason for me about . and he went with it for the rest of begin is by developing an attitude of unselfish ■ I am content with insults. to say it again: Life is not about you! So then . his days. We must do the same. humility. Start with your family or friends. ■ . what is it about? - It’s about God. ■ I am content when I am slandered. Model it before your employees or clients. When you and I boast of our strengths, we get ■ I am content in distresses. You won’t believe the impact that sort of selfless How can I say that with assurance? Because the credit . and we keep going under our ■ I am content with persecutions. mental attitude will have on others—and on of Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 12:9–10: own head of steam. Bad plan. But when we ■ yourself. boast in what Christ is doing in the midst of ■ I am content with difficulties and our brokenness, inabilities, and inadequacies, pressures that are so tight I can hardly Let me add that this sort of humility doesn’t turn around. by CHARLES R. SWINDOLL turn around. mean we walk around looking like the poster These are contexts of contentment? Seems child for the book of Lamentations. On the impossible! Paul tells us how he did it: because contrary, Paul exhorts believers to have an GOOD NEWS! “when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor- attitude of joyful acceptance. That’s right— inthians 12:10). Read that again. Knowing joyful. Paul minced no words about how this truth brought the apostle to his knees, believers should act: ablaze with the flaming oracles of heaven. Do all things without grumbling or disputing; Life is not about you. Paul understood that it wasn’t all about him. so that you will prove yourselves to be blame- It was about God. What a way to live your life! less and innocent, children of God above Content in everything . knowing that divine reproach in the midst of a crooked and per- uuh? strength comes at the time when human verse generation, among whom you appear weakness is evident. as lights in the world. (Philippians 2:14–15) Paul sought an attitude of joyful acceptance, Quite remarkably, we never read where Paul free of petty disputes, bickering, and whining said to his Roman guard, while he was in prison: —he pled for authentic joy. I urge you to live “I need you to do me a favor. Next time you this way . and the results will amaze you. happen to be near one of the emperor’s assistants, urge him to get me out of this After all, it’s not about you. It’s about God. ■ dump. I shouldn’t be here in the first place. I’ve been here for one year, seven months, Charles R. Swindoll serves as the senior pastor-teacher four days, five hours, and nine minutes, and of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas. that’s long enough.” Paul’s attitude of unselfish PAGE 5 W ho would’ve ever guessed it? Out of the himself more wisely than all the servants of blue came this nobody. He had spent his Saul” (18:30). This led to growing popular- youth working for his dad in the quiet, rugged ity, increased favour in the eyes of Saul’s in- outdoors. Now, suddenly, he was the most ner circle, military victories, and enormous famous man in the country. But he couldn’t praise from the public. David found himself wait to retreat to the hills where life was simple sandwiched between public applause and and uncluttered.
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