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The Measure of One's Life Book The Measure of One’s Life "Let us so live that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry." (Mark Twain) A devotional book by Gary Davenport TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page 1 - A beginning… "Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom" 1 4 2 - Working for worth… “Life is a series of inspired follies.”2 14 3 – Searching for direction… A man called his neighbor to help him move a couch that had become stuck in the doorway. They pushed and pulled until they were exhausted, but the couch wouldn't budge. "Forget it," the man finally said. "We'll never get this in." The neighbor looked at him quizzically and said, "In?"3 23 4 – Chasing after courage… Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”4 34 5 - Facing change… “Change is the nursery of music, joy, life, and eternity.” 5 47 6 - Pursuing Peace… “No sleep can be tranquil unless the mind is at rest.”6 55 7 - Experiencing Joy… Happiness is a feeling. Joy is an attitude. A posture. A position. A place.7 64 8 -Practicing Patience… A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. 76 9 - Being a Blessing… There is no plant in the ground but is full of his virtue. There is no form in the strand but is full of his blessing.8 85 10 -- Accepting Authority… Our world is fast becoming a madhouse, and the inmates are trying to run the asylum. It is a strange time when the patients are writing the prescriptions, the students are threatening to run the schools, the children to manage the homes, and church members—not the Holy Spirit—to direct the churches.9 90 11 -- Choosing Character …The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.10 95 12 -- Recovering from Guilt… The purpose of being guilty is to bring us to Jesus. Once we are there, then its purpose is finished. If we continue to make ourselves guilty—to blame ourselves—then that is sin in itself.11 104 12 13 - Gaining the Victory… The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy. 112 1 Boyle Roche, Instant Quotation Dictionary, p. 97. 2 British playwright George Bernard Shaw 3 Coffee Break 4 Dorothy Bernard 5 John Donne (1572–1631) 6 Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 b.c.–a.d. 65) 7 Tim Hansel 8 Carmina Gadelica, quoted in "Reflections," Christianity Today, Vol. 44, No. 13. 9 Vance Havner 10 Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership, Vol. 16, no. 3. 11 Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) 12 Ibid 2 14 - Willing to Worship… A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word darkness on the walls of his cell.13 120 15 - Hungering for Hope… He that lives in hope dances without a fiddle. 130 16 - Finding Friendships… A faithful friend is an image of God, one of life’s greatest assets. 140 17- Devoted to Family… A happy family is but an earlier heaven. 14 152 18 - Longing for Love… Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.15 165 19 -Following after Faith… Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death.16 185 20 - Powerful in Prayer…The activity which we call prayer is, without a doubt, the very 195 heart of religion. 20 -- Arriving Home… 205 13 C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) 14 Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) 15 Thomas Merton (1915–1968) 16 Edward Young (1683–1765) 3 1 A beginning… "Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom" 17 There was five inches of snow on the ground outside the house, glistening beneath the street’s only light, settling in for another cold mid-winter night’s sleep in the Northeast corner of Ohio. The week’s weather had been on a roller coaster, seeking to discern between the high 10’s and the mid- 30’s, which certainly put the beautiful layer of ‘God’s gift’ in these parts at risk for another day. The movie on the small television in the bedroom suddenly garnered even more attention than before, as lawyer Jan Schlichtmann (played by John Travolta) sat haggardly before a questioning judge. His life had seemingly come to a roadblock, and his demeanor displayed a frustration that spoke volumes considering the otherwise ‘high marks’ for the good intentions he had displayed throughout his career. Viewed by some as an ‘ambulance chaser,’ he would acknowledge often through the movie, A Civil Action,18 that money did matter. In fact, it mattered a lot if one wanted to drive expensive cars and dress impeccably in the finest of ‘threads’ and enjoy life’s finer things. 17 Boyle Roche, Instant Quotation Dictionary, p. 97. 18 Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious young lawyer, is confronted with the litigation of a lifetime in this unbelievable real-life story. Several families in the small town of Woburn, Massachusetts, have suffered the tragic losses of their children to the rare cancer known as leukemia. After having their claim rejected by most law firms in town, these citizens approach Schlichtmann with the possibility that the deaths of their children may have had to do with Woburn's drinking water supply being contaminated by a couple of local businesses. The rub lies in the fact that these businesses are offshoots of two of the most powerful national corporations in the country! Schlichtmann must push his skill and craftiness as a lawyer to the limit in order to oust his opponents, who are working with a limitless bankroll. 4 But this character struggled with good times and even better intentions. He eventually would grow ‘sentimental’ toward his clients, which was not to be considered by a “smart lawyer who wants to win the important cases.” His problem was simple: he came to care about the client. And it cost money for small law firms to defend poor clients against deep-pocketed corporations who wanted only to “wear you down” until a settlement became a necessary evil. He was penniless. Broke. And empty. Life should have been better. It had often lived up to the dream, but only for a moment in what seemed like a timeless daze of hard work and high ambitions. The judge asked a series of questions, each determined to discover why his life was in such desperate condition. Where is all the money you made as a lawyer? The possessions one accumulates in his lifetime? “Do you expect your creditors to believe that you have nothing but $14 in your checking account and a portable radio,” she quizzed. Then the words came forth: “Where is the money, the property, the belongings, the things by which one measures one’s life?” The measure of one’s life! The measure of one’s life? What an intriguing statement. What a question? The suggestion is that one’s life is judged based upon accumulation of things. Stuff. And the implication is that if one does not have this all-empowering stuff, that life is of little account. A merchant, some few years ago, failed in business. He went home in great agitation. "What is the matter?" asked his wife. "I am ruined; I am beggared; I have lost my all," he exclaimed, pressing his hand upon his forehead. "All" said the wife. "No, I am left." "All, papa," said his eldest boy, "here am I." "And I, too," said his little girl, running up, and putting her arms around his neck. "I'm not lost, papa," repeated Eddie. "And you have your health left," said his wife. "And your hands to work with," said his eldest; "and I can help you." "And your two feet, papa, to carry you about, and your two eyes to see with, papa," said little Eddie. "And you have God's promises," said the grandmother. "And a good God," said his wife. Where would we be without our good God, One who has shown Himself daily for His love and devotion to us? And isn’t it comforting to know that God "…causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." (Matthew 5:45) 5 Those words are certainly expressed to each of us through God’s divine word: (Jeremiah 31:3) "The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness."19 If we’re prone to wonder if God really cares for us at all, the apostle John gives us a reassuring reply: ""For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16) He reveals even more in his later epistle, seeking to give confidence to those who were surrounded by the wisdom-filled Gnostics of the day: "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him." (1 John 3:1). We often find ourselves questioning those things which once were most certain in our life. We move from doubt to despair and eventually discouragement or disappointment. The company of the discouraged is a very noble company.
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