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The great attorney, orator, and statesman Daniel Webster was such an imposing figure in court that he once stared a witness out of the courtroom.
Apparently Webster knew the man was there to deliver false testimony, so he fixed his "dark, beetle-browed" eyes on the man and searched him .
According to the story, later in the trial "Webster looked around again to see if [the witness] was ready for the inquisition.
The witness felt for his hat and edged toward the door. A third time Webster looked on him, and the witness could sit no longer. He seized his chance and fled from the court and was nowhere to be found."
Your conscience may bother you and sometimes you may weary of its bothering, but be glad of this moral whisper of God within you.
For when it dies you die. When it ceases to speak to you as a child of God you cease to have any kinship with God.
Kipling once wrote, "Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, where there ain't no Ten Commandments, and a man can raise a thirst."
And everybody. I guess at one time or the other, has had the foolish idea that to throw off the traces would be true freedom.
But, my friends, don't ever be deceived.
Without conscience, freedom becomes anarchy.
The beast of the jungle has true freedom, unbothered by conscience, it dissolves down into survival of the fittest. I doubt if I have any volunteers this morning to live a jungle life in a jungle world.
You know, I read a definition the other day which I wish could be written across the sky. It was this. "A juvenile delinquent is a youngster who thinks he is old enough to behave like his parents.
When you look upon your son or daughter, when you look at children growing up into this adult world so very fast, does not the truth of this statement stream home with the strength of a Gargantuan?
The words of our Lord might also be paraphrased to read "Before you chastise your child for the splinter in his eye, take care of the moat in your own eye.
If you scream your child will scream. If church means nothing to you it is unlikely to mean anything to your child. If you break every rule in God's Book, your child is neither deaf, dumb, nor blind, and in his own time he too will break every rule.
. If you have no children you arc still an example, and as you are, so shall today's children become tomorrow's adults.
Why worry about guilt and forgiveness? For the simple reason that you had better because not enough other people do. God hasn't made this world a pig pen. He offers the prodigal something better anytime he wants to come home.
Adult delinquents will continue to transform juveniles into delinquents until we ask for God forgiveness and become something better.
Why talk about repentance, guilt, forgiveness and God? For the simple reason that only a fool would deny that they both exist and are needed.
"All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."
You and I have really only two choices in life.
One choice is to ignore God and His law. The second is to remember, worship, and obey God and His law.
There is no in-between. Jesus put it plainly, "Those who are not for Me are against me."
So what about it? Are you for or against?
POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITING THURSDAY MARCH 8TH THOUGHTS ENTITLED "What Do You Want From Jesus?"
Are you seeking from Jesus to be well adjusted? I sometimes like to use well adjusted rather than the “blessed” referred to in the Beatitudes for if you are well adjusted, you are indeed blessed. “Well-adjusted are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Well-adjusted are those who are peacemakers. Well-adjusted are the merciful. Well adjusted are… (Matthew 5:3-10)
Is that what you want from Jesus? The ability to be well-adjusted in your relationships with your fellowman? To be well-adjusted in mind, body and spirit? To be well-adjusted toward good and away from evil? To be well-adjusted enough “to have a sense of humor, the grace to see a joke, to get some happiness from life and pass it on to other folk.” (anonymous)
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Yes, God loves you the way you are but he loves you too much to let you stay that way.
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"When it comes to invoking religion in support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle of humility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."
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