ARE YOU RUTLESS OR GROVELESS AND DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)

Serialization of Neil’s Internationally Distributed Novel (Rust On My Soul) (Published by Bridge Press (1985) starts on his blog Wyrick’s Writings Tuesday April 13th and continues each Tuesday until finished. Thursday and Sunday will continue to cover a variety of subjects.

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Rufus Jones was a great preacher but before that he was just a little boy challenged to learn how best to grow up rather than down.

One day, his mother and father as they prepared to go into town said to him, “We want you to weed the turnip patch.”

After they had gone, as he tells the story, he went out back and looked at that turnip patch and quoting himself says, “For the first time in my life I understood the biblical phrase “Everlasting to everlasting”

He never saw so many weeds.

And just at that moment two friends came walking by with their fishing poles over their shoulders. “Rufus, let’s go fishing” they called out.

Of course, he wanted to go fishing and he didn’t want to weed turnips…so when they said, “When we come back, we’ll help you,” he was up and ready and gone.

Well, that afternoon went like no afternoon had ever gone before and before Rufus knew it the afternoon was gone and the weeds weren’t pulled and mother and father were home. He knew he was in trouble when his mother just took him upstairs.

He didn’t know whether he was going to get a walloping or a bawling out, or both.

However, when she got him up there, she simply put him to bed, never got out the whipping stick, but rather got down on her knees and began to pray, “Dear Lord, I love this boy of mine, I got all kinds of hopes and dreams for him and he has disappointed me. He’s disobeyed me. But, Lord, somehow help him to be the boy he was made to be.”

Then she walked over and kissed him and went out and never said another word and he said “You know, I never consciously disobeyed her again.”

Don’t know whether you’ve seen that old sign, but certainly you’ve heard about it, you know the sign that says, “Be careful which rut you get in, you’ll be in it for the next 25 miles.”

Well, there are a lot of grooves and there are a lot of ruts and there are lots of people in ruts and not enough in grooves.

”Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve,
But As For Me And My House We Will Serve The Lord”
Joshua 24:14-24

To serve is to listen to God’s commandments and to obey these requests. To choose a groove called rightful living or a rut called wasted living.

"No man can serve two masters...Ye cannot
serve God and Mammon."--Matthew 6:24.

Life is a series of choices and each poor choice we make is a wound to our soul, our minds and the very fiber of our being.

Edgar A. Guest put it well…
”You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; you are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.”

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Below are recent Titles on Neil’s other blog Wyrick’sWritings blog To read them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Wyrick’s Writings”

May 27 2010 …DO YOU HAVE A PHD IN COMPLAINING?
May 23 2010…WHAT IS A FOOL?
May 9 2010 …WHAT IS MEEKNESS?
May 6 2010 …HOW HEAVY WAS THE LAST GRUDGE YOU HELD?
April 15 2010 …DO YOU BELIEVE IN DEVILS?


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