John LeBoutillier
Monday, Aug. 28, 2006

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SOLVING OUR PROBLEMS

I can't tell you how many people are beleaguered with seemingly insurmountable problems. I run into them all the time — so many things in our lives seem to be impossible.

What to do?

Money troubles, family issues, job pressures, illnesses and romance and relationship worries. These — and so many other problems — haunt us all - rich and poor alike.

So, what can be done about all this?

Some turn to addictions to cope — drinking, drugs, gambling, sex etc. — thinking that these will help them survive their travails. (Of course these only compound the problems.)

Others believe — naively — that the government can and will somehow help.

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Oh, really? Remember Ronald Reagan's joke? It went like this: "Hi, I'm from the government and am here to help you."

Government usually does not help — even when well intentioned; it usually only makes the problem worse.

It seems that so many of us miss the obvious: We have a built-in problem-solving mechanism and don't use it enough.

It is called either prayer or merely "talking to God" — simply, easily and any way that makes you comfortable.

Maybe Sunday School or some early religious upbringing turned you off religion — or it taught you the wrong things. But if you are ignoring this built-in problem-solving mechanism, you are living life while running on an almost-empty gas tank.

Here is a key question: Do you really believe that you were created and birthed and put here on earth to be miserable and unhappy?

Why would any god do such a thing?

No, God would not have done that. Instead, He gave us so much — and then he learned from the early days of mankind's atrocious behavior — that a "software manual" and a "teacher" were needed to teach mankind how to live and prosper and — yes — to be happy.

So God gave us two things: the Bible and His only son, sent here in the form of a human being. Their role? To teach us God's path, God's way to live and prosper — and to be happy.

How obvious it all is.

And yet so many of us miss it all the time.

So many disdain religion — or so many have been improperly taught (in many cases they are over-taught) that they are turned off. And thus they are not availing themselves of this incredible power — asking God for help, advice, guidance, and peace of mind.

It is all so simple: Ask and you shall receive.

It does indeed work. But not always the way you think it should; it works the way God knows it should.

All you have to do is talk to God; explain your situation simply and then ask God for help.

Period.

Then relax and forget your problem and stop worrying because worrying does not help anything or anyone.

Your problems — somehow, someway — will improve over time. They always do. Or, if they don't, God will give you — if you ask — the strength to adjust to the new situation.

Along with this simple problem-solving mechanism, there are the simple rules of life — taught through stories in the Bible — illustrated and often shown in vivid detail through the life and death of Jesus Christ.

If you live your life in accordance with those lessons and rules, you are going to be happy and fulfilled. You will be living the life God put you here to live.

It is indeed simple.

Too bad so many people miss this essential key to a happy life.

If you think you are missing out, take the plunge and try talking to God. He will hear you — and He will help you.

Guaranteed.

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