A dejected looking man was sitting at a bar staring at his drink when a large, trouble-making biker stepped up to the bar, grabbed the man’s drink and gulped it down in one swig.
“Well, whatcha gonna do about it?” said the biker as the man burst into tears.
“Come on, man,” the biker says, “I didn’t think you’d CRY. I can`t stand to see a man crying.”
Wiping away tears, the man said. ” Well, you see I’ve had a really bad day. I was late to a meeting and my boss fired me. When I went to the parking lot, I found my car had been stolen and I don’t have any insurance. I left my wallet in the cab I took home. My wife told me she’s leaving me and then her dog bit me. So I came to this bar to work up the courage to put an end to it all.
“Oh, man that’s tough”, said the biker.
“I know” said the man, “and that’s not all. After I decided to end it all, I bought that drink, dropped a capsule in it and sat here watching the poison dissolve. But enough about me, how’s your day going?”
Solomon wrote, “Anxiety in man causes depression.” Not circumstances, but anxiety. Bad things happen to us–to all of us. But when we let the bad circumstances outside of us worm their way inside of us, anxiety builds and depression descends.
Bethany Hamilton started surfing when she was just a child. At age 13, an almost-deadly shark attack resulted in her losing her left arm. She was back on her surfboard one month later.
The Apostle Paul wrote, “We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.”
Someone said, “Don’t tell God how big your problems are. Tell your problems how big your God is.”
