MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

I am the vine, ye are the branches.

He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit;

for without me ye can do nothing.

~ John 15:5, KJV ~

"Magnificent" to stress-survivors may be altogether different than to others.

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What impresses us as extraordinary and exceptional may not even faze some folk--especially if they've never been stranded on a stressful path.

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In the 1954 classic, "Magnificent Obsession," party-hardy, Bob Merrick, is to blame for Joyce Hudson husband's death; and then for her tragic blindness.

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As stressful as his situation started out, there was sweet peace in the end. In spite of Bob Merrick's many reckless choices, he surprisingly turned his life around.

After he met a man who shared a powerful testimony about "connecting to the power source ," it became a "Magnificent Obsession" to Merrick to do--and to be--everything possible to to achieve this connection.

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As stress survivors, once we have stressed until we literally feel ill, we come to a point where we're willing to surrender to a power much greater than ourselves. And we too determine to do whatever it takes to obtain this power.

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JESUS reminds us (John 15:5) that HE is our Power Source. And it matters not who we are, what we've done, or where we've come from, we--like the determined Bob Merrick--must develop a Magnificent Obsession with Jesus and seek His Ultimate Power Source.

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Peace I leave with you . . .