One of my favorite words in the English language is \u201cstuff.\u201d It\u2019s\u00a0so versatile. Just look it up in Webster\u2019s and your find a bazillion meanings: material possessions, supplies, equipment, bullets, personal property, textiles, literary or artistic production, ideas of little value, trash, an unspecified kind of matter, scattered miscellaneous articles, talk, actions, construction material, subject matter, something consumed in the body, special knowledge or capability, a great baseball pitch, cram in, fill up, thrust, and the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n
People got lots of \u201cstuff.\u201d People strut their \u201cstuff.\u201d People know their \u201cstuff.\u201d People show their \u201cstuff.\u201d People pick their \u201cstuff\u201d up and put it away. People spread their \u201cstuff\u201d all around. Honored baseball pitchers have what is known as tremendous \u201cstuff.\u201d People buy \u201cstuff.\u201d People sell \u201cstuff.\u201d People have the \u201cstuff\u201d of greatness. Some people \u201cstuff\u201d their heads with knowledge. In fact a little knowledge can be heady \u201cstuff.\u201d People \u201cstuff\u201d their faces. People \u201cstuff\u201d their pockets. People \u201cstuff\u201d their bags. People \u201cstuff\u201d their birds. Some people are \u201cstuffed\u201d shirts. People dish out \u201cstuff\u201d in conversations. Some people take that \u201cstuff\u201d from others and some people don\u2019t. And all people go through \u201cstuff\u201d they don\u2019t want to go through. \u201cStuff\u201d happens.<\/p>\n
At times we all wish we had other people\u2019s \u201cstuff\u201d instead of our own. People got lots of \u201cstuff\u201d and sometimes their \u201cstuff\u201d looks better than our \u201cstuff.\u201d Some people had to give up a lot of \u201cstuff\u201d because of the recession. Some of us carry around a lot of excess emotional and psychological \u201cstuff\u201d that weighs us down and prevents us from making the progress we\u2019d like to make. Sometimes the \u201cstuff\u201d others are going through doesn\u2019t seem as hard as the \u201cstuff\u201d we\u2019re going through. But one thing is for sure. All people got \u201cstuff\u201d they have to put up with. No one goes through life without dealing with \u201cstuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
God never promised us we wouldn\u2019t have \u201cstuff\u201d to deal with or \u201cstuff\u201d to go through. However, He did say He would be there with us. Hebrew 13:5 says that we should be content with such \u201cstuff\u201d as we have for God said He would never leave us or forsake us. Psalms 37:39 says that God is our strength when bad \u201cstuff\u201d happens. Proverbs 11:28 says that those who trust in their \u201cstuff\u201d will fall, but those who trust in God won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
When people have God, they can take just about any old \u201cstuff\u201d this world throws at them. Only God has the right \u201cstuff\u201d to help us in our time of need. Only God can help us keep our perspective when \u201cstuff\u201d happens. And I happen to think my \u201cstuff\u201d is personalized just for me. God said that He\u2019d never give me more \u201cstuff\u201d than I could handle. So when people ask me if I want some of their \u201cstuff,\u201d I just say, \u201cNo, thanks!\u201d I got plenty of \u201cstuff\u201d of my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my favorite words in the English language is \u201cstuff.\u201d It\u2019s\u00a0so versatile. Just look it up in Webster\u2019s and your find a bazillion meanings: material possessions, supplies, equipment, bullets, personal property, textiles, literary or artistic production, ideas of little … Continue reading