Infusion Bible eStudies are downloadable small group studies that can be read online, printed, or emailed. Each study includes a leader guide and a study guide and is suitable for a one-hour group Bible study.
Listen...to the words of the Scripture, and in them discover God's message for you today.
Look...at a brief verbal snapshot from the scrapbook of contemporary life and discover its connection both to you and to the Scripture passage.
Live...inside the Scripture to discover its context and message; then allow the Scripture to come alive in you and cause you to live out your faith in new and more-effective ways.
Read an excerpt from this study below.
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One does not have to be a student of Shakespeare to quote him now and then. People often do it without knowing it. For example, “Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least.” My mother, in Midwestern fashion, had a simpler way of saying it: “Sometimes we don’t know when we’re well off.”
Our problem usually comes when we try to do an inventory of another’s resources. We generally miss badly on this because what we know is usually what is displayed in the living room, that is, the things that are meant to be seen. I was a pastor for only a short time when I learned that there are skeletons in everyone’s closets. I learned, too, that no life is without pain. The pain is more evident in some cases than in others. Everyone gets a share, however, because death comes to all; one or another of life’s distresses eventually calls our name.
Our biggest problem as we envy “this [person’s] art and that [person’s] scope” is our standard of evaluation. There is more to life than a good balance sheet, winning an election, or having fifteen minutes of fame. We need to know what matters. As my mother would say, we need to know when we are well off.
