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Ever come to that point in your life when you are faced with a major decision or major decisions? You find yourself, stuck in a rut, confused, stagnated or just moving backwards. Nothing's going on but the usual. You're just waiting to die.
Across the field of life you see hope in the distance but you're not so sure about taking the chance on that either because of the uncertainty. In fact, the hope might reside in the most seemingly or potentially hostile of places. People may tell you that you are stupid for taking the chance. They may even encourage you to stay where you are and deal with the troubles you know than to go seeking it elsewhere. However, you know deep down inside you are damned if you do (stay) and damned if you don't (don't make the move). If you move on and it fails, you at least tried. You at least made a move. You at least went down trying to work toward hope instead of sitting mired in hopelessness. The biblical story below underlines this:
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.” And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one was there. For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses—the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!” Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact—their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—and they fled for their lives. And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried from it silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back and entered another tent, and carried some from there also, and went and hid it. </span></span>
I Kings 7:3-8
Across the field of life you see hope in the distance but you're not so sure about taking the chance on that either because of the uncertainty. In fact, the hope might reside in the most seemingly or potentially hostile of places. People may tell you that you are stupid for taking the chance. They may even encourage you to stay where you are and deal with the troubles you know than to go seeking it elsewhere. However, you know deep down inside you are damned if you do (stay) and damned if you don't (don't make the move). If you move on and it fails, you at least tried. You at least made a move. You at least went down trying to work toward hope instead of sitting mired in hopelessness. The biblical story below underlines this:
<span style="font-style: italic">
<span style="font-weight: bold">Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.” And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one was there. For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses—the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!” Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact—their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—and they fled for their lives. And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried from it silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back and entered another tent, and carried some from there also, and went and hid it. </span></span>
I Kings 7:3-8
) The moral of this story is --there is no excuse for anyone!! Good words Mutty..Are those words your thoughts? 
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