Originally posted by @dj2beckerCertainly not to improve his chess rating.
What do you use yours for?
Originally posted by @romans1009Probably the worst faux pas on a Chess site. Belittle the rating of another player.
Certainly not to improve his chess rating.
Shameful.
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeSo repeatedly trolling someone about his elderly and sick mother is Ok, but don’t you dare troll someone about his chess rating. Not a single time. Ever!
Probably the worst faux pas on a Chess site. Belittle the rating of another player.
Shameful.
Your self-appointed role as the SF’s Miss Manners might have more credibility if you weren’t a lying troll.
Oops! Was describing you accurately a faux pas?
From Our Daily Bread:
I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.—Psalm 130:6
Every May Day (May 1) in Oxford, England, an early morning crowd gathers to welcome spring. At 6:00, the Magdalen College Choir sings from the top of Magdalen Tower. Thousands wait in anticipation for the dark night to be broken by song and the ringing of bells.
Like the revelers, I often wait. I wait for answers to prayers or guidance from the Lord. Although I don’t know the exact time my wait will end, I’m learning to wait expectantly. In Psalm 130 the psalmist writes of being in deep distress facing a situation that feels like the blackest of nights. In the midst of his troubles, he chooses to trust God and stay alert like a guard on duty charged with announcing daybreak. “I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning” (v. 6).
The anticipation of God’s faithfulness breaking through the darkness gives the psalmist hope to endure even in the midst of his suffering. Based on the promises of God found throughout Scripture, that hope allows him to keep waiting even though he has not yet seen the first rays of light.
Be encouraged if you are in the middle of a dark night. The dawn is coming—either in this life or in heaven! In the meantime, don’t give up hope but keep watching for the deliverance of the Lord. He will be faithful. —Lisa Samra
Please bring light to my darkness. Open my eyes to see You at work and to trust You. I’m grateful that You are faithful, Father.
God can be trusted in the light and in the dark.
INSIGHT: In Psalm 130:5-6 the word wait(s) appears five times. In the Lord’s development of our personal faith, He often delays an answer to prayer to deepen our trust in Him. At times this can be perplexing. Asking for His intervention for a wayward child or for healing of a painful illness often carries a sense of urgency. We pray, “Lord, I need your help now!” But “waiting on the Lord” takes discipline and develops a perseverance in our faith that only steadfastness can yield. Abram waited years for Isaac, the child of promise, to finally be given to him. And this was through Sarah’s unlikely conception when she was advanced in years and beyond the age of childbearing. Yet God’s sovereign hand was orchestrating these events. Abram waited on God in prayer, and eventually God granted him offspring too numerous to count (Genesis 12; 16:10; 17:1-19).
What prayers are you waiting for God to answer? In what ways might your heavenly Father be developing your faith as you wait? Dennis Fisher
From Our Daily Bread:
It troubled me deeply till I entered the sanctuary of God.—Psalm 73:16-17
My hometown had experienced its heaviest winter in thirty years. My muscles ached from hours of shoveling the unrelenting snow. When I stepped inside after what felt like a fruitless effort, weary as I kicked off my boots, I was greeted by the warmth of a fire and my children gathered around it. As I gazed out the window from the shelter of my home, my perspective of the weather shifted completely. Instead of seeing more work to do, I savored the beauty of frosted tree branches and the way the snow blanketed the colorless landscape of winter.
I see a similar, but much more poignant, shift in Asaph when I read his words in Psalm 73. In the beginning, he laments the way the world seems to work, how wrongs seem to be rewarded. He doubts the value of being different than the crowd and living for the good of others (v. 13). But when he enters the sanctuary of God, his outlook changes (vv. 16-17): he remembers that God will deal with the world and its troubles perfectly and, more importantly, that it is good to be with God (v. 28).
When we’re chilled by the seemingly ceaseless problems in our world, we can enter God’s sanctuary in prayer and be warmed through by the life-altering, perspective-changing truth that His judgment is better than ours. Though our circumstances may not change, our perspective can. —Kirsten Holmberg
Lord, I admit I quickly become frustrated with the way things appear. Help me to see the way You do.
God gives us the right perspective.
INSIGHT: In Psalm 37 David addresses the same perplexing issue Asaph writes about in Psalm 73—the wicked prosper while the godly suffer unjustly. David tells those who suffer unjustly not to fret or be envious, for God is just and will one day make all things right (Psalm 37:7-11, 35-38). Instead, those who fear the Lord are to rest fully in God and to continue to live holy lives (vv. 3-6). For the Lord “will not forsake his faithful ones” (v. 28).
Are you weighed down because of injustice? How can the hope expressed in these psalms encourage and strengthen you? K. T. Sim