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Category: Boredom

  • How to Not Be Bored

    1. Turn off the TV and music, and get off the internet (unless you’re reading a bible on the internet of course).
    2. Read the New Testament Bible for about 30-45 minutes, especially the epistles (equates to about 5-7 chapters).
    3. Sit in stillness and quietness and meditate on what you’ve just read, logically stepping through it in your mind and letting the Holy Spirit guide your thoughts into all truth.
    4. Continue to sit in stillness and quietness a lot more and just talk to Jesus. You won’t  hear an audible response to your words, but you’ll find that you can talk for hours (because He’s responding to you silently Spirit-to-spirit). You are never alone. He lives inside you.
    5. You’ll get the hang of it, and the peace it begets is like nothing else.

  • How to have peace and joy all the time

    Here’s the wisdom for how to have peace and joy all the time, in every moment:

    Everything in this day and age is always about working towards some future goal that will “eventually” bring you “peace and joy”. But truly, life is literally about peace and joy now, and you should be experiencing that peace and joy every moment of every day, regardless of goals, and you can, and it’s free (don’t think about tomorrow’s peace and joy, experience right now’s peace and joy. Then when tomorrow comes, enjoy that day’s peace and joy. Live in the now – not in “tomorrow”: Matthew 6:34 — “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Therefore do not be consumed by tomorrow’s peace and joy, for tomorrow will have its own peace and joy. Sufficient for the [current] day is its own peace and joy):

    In life, you’re either:

    1. Working
    2. Resting alone
    3. Fellowshipping with others

    There’s a method of working that actually gives birth to peace and joy: it’s slow, steady and methodical; deeply focused on the task at hand; one step at a time, one day at a time in small, manageable portions; gentle, patient and self-controlled, quiet. There’s never a good occasion to rush. Day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, here a little, there a little.

    While resting alone (doing nothing alone), you can find peace in just hanging out with the Lord, listening to the stillness and quietness, meditating on the ways of God.

    Joy naturally comes from righteous and loving fellowship with all others – family, friends and strangers. And it’s free and can be done any time.

    Take notice of how none of the above includes the desires for food/drink (the lust of the flesh) or possessions (the lust of the eyes).