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From: kiki@isieng.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: It works for me - what do you do to overcome fear, doubt and worry?
Message-ID: <328@isieng.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 13:02:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 14 13:02:02 1986
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Reply-To: kiki@isieng.UUCP (Kiki Herbst)
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In article <887@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>> 
>> How about you?  What do you do to overcome fear, worry, and doubt in your
>> life?
>
>Fear, worry, and doubt, huh?  If its due to something unknown, I try to learn 
>about that thing.  If its due to some problem, I solve the problem if its
>within my capability...  If its something I
>can't solve myself, I might join with others to help solve it...
>I believe leaving these in the hands of a supernatural
>entity is akin to ignoring them and is very likely to give one a very false
>sense of security.
>
>Dave Haynie	{caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh

Dave, your comment here reminded me of a dumb joke:  It's a story about a flood
and as the water started to rise up, there was a woman who insisted on staying
in her house as the rescue workers came to evacuate the neighborhood.  First,
they came by in a big four-wheel truck and told her to go with them. She responded "I'll be fine, I have faith in God.  He'll save me."  Later the rescuers came
back in a boat as the water got higher.  They said to come along the water was
getting too high.  The woman again said "I'll be fine I have faith that God will
save me."  Finally the rescuers come back in a helicopter as the woman is sitting on top of her house with just her head out of the water.  Again she refuses and eventually drowns.  When she gets to heaven she complains to God, "Why didn't
you save me?  I had faith in you, I thought you'd help me."  God responds to the
woman "What did you expect? I sent you a truck, a boat and a helicopter!"

God says that he helps those who help themselves.  He encourages us to use
our minds and to rationally analyze life situations.  Believing in God and
seeking His wisdom, doesn't mean that we should be stupid and drown like the
woman in the joke.  You're right, in instances like that people are relying
on a "very false sense of security."  But God does teach us not to worry.  We
should be prepared for life situtations, anticipate, plan, react and so on.
But we are guaranteed that He will help us deal with life.  There are numerous
times in my own life where God has given me better guidance than any person or
any part of my own mind could have provided.  If you are looking for answers,
and like you said sometimes cannot come to a conclusion, why not tap the best
source possible?  If there is a God and he created the world, us, everything 
we ever deal with, then He probably knows the answers to the questions.  If
you don't believe that God has a much more superior intelligence than we do,
than this rational won't make a difference.  I believe that God is the Lord
of the universe and he will provide wisdom to those who seek his will.  I
believe this because His Son said so.

Kiki