The Best Medicine – (2)

Hi guys, remember in The Best Medicine – 1, I wrote about the frustrated and disgruntled man who was at his wits end and suicidal until he went to see his doctor to complain and was instructed to do what he loved doing most when he was young (going to the seashore). He told him to stay there all day and first Listen (at 9 am) for three hours and then reach back (at 12 pm) for another 3 hours and ponder on all that has happened to you in the past, what you’ll change or what you wont or what you’ll do better if given another chance. For more on the first 2 doses, please click on The Best Medicine – 1

In continuation, at 3.00pm, he tore open the third prescription. It said, “Reexamine your motives.” This took so much intense thought and concentration that the remaining three hours slipped by quickly as he reexamined his motives – his reasons for living and fulfillment. He clarified and restated his goals.
Motive is everything. That is why God always checks our motives. The “how” may be important and exciting but the “why” will always be revealing. Why are you doing what you are doing currently? Why are you at the level you are? Why have you not started to write, joined that group, proposed to that lady, taken your family out, prayed through, read a book, read your Bible, taken that course, called that person, priced that good? Why? Why? Why? They say “He who knows how will get the job, but he who knows why will always be his boss.”
And at six o’clock, under a gray, darkening sky and with a taste of salt mist in the air, he read the final prescription: “Write your worries in the sand.” Pausing for a moment, he knew there was something that seemed to be gnawing inside. With his pants rolled up, he grabbed a stick, walked to the shoreline, and wrote his worry in the sand. Before leaving, he stared at what he had written. But as he walked toward his car, he looked back and saw that the incoming tide had already erased his words. A smile eased onto his face as he got into his car and headed for home.
Nothing can change by reason of your worrying….which of you by worrying can add one cubit to your height? – Matt 6:27 Learn the lessons and forget the details.
Ingest now these four doses. Begin to listen, to reach back, to reexamine your motives, and to write your worries in the sand. Begin now to place your troubles, difficulties and past failures into perspective. Take time out now to discover yourself, where you are going, and how and when you will arerive at your destination. Remember, there are no unanswered requests in the universe. If you do not like what you are receiving, you can learn to ask for something different. Then you will find what you wish.

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1. The Best Medicine – (1)