GIVING?

" ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY

              Take these two seeds of thought below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.

      one liners FOR THE SOUL

   Try to think of history without sound.

      Try to imagine great battles surrounded by complete silence.

      Try to imagine diplomats from two opposing countries debating in silence. 

      Suppose there had never been Roosevelt’s quiet fireside chats,

Hitler’s wild chattering,

Nero playing his fiddle,

Lincoln and his Gettysburg address,

The leadership voice of Washington at Valley Forge.

No shouts at Bunker Hill

Voices of hope echoing off the bow of the Mayflower.

Paul and his words on his missionary journeys,

The voice of the Son of God, his words recorded into the written word.

 

The voice of Peter saying, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”

Christ saying of himself, “He that hath seen me hath seen the father.”

      The voice of Stephen dying under a hail of stones, “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.”

      And the beginning of it all, the voices of angels to shepherds on the side of a hill, “Be not afraid; for behold I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all people; for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”

      The voices of the prophets, Isaiah Jeremiah, Nehmiah and a host of others.

Moses and the Ten Commandments and the voice of God.

The voices of Abraham and Isaac and Noah and his ark.

The sound of rain that fell for forty days and forty nights.

Voices in the Garden of Eden.

      The foolish voices of those who had nothing better to do than argue as to how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.

      The sounds of great choirs dating back through the centuries.

 

History is recording sound at this very moment and slightly before and soon thereafter.

      What you have been saying on this day and will be saying and your words traveling through timeless space never to be quieted.

      In closing, can we play for a moment the WHAT IF game? 

      What if someone had looked at the art of Adolph Hiller and praised him for having great talent and he had become a great artist instead of…(and think of who you would add to this WHAT IF game,)

      What if someone had looked at you and said “…….”  Instead of “………”

      What if you had looked at all those you have spoken to, in the making of your history and there’s and had said “…………” or “…………..”

      What will you say in the future and to who and why?

      And how soon after you have spoken it will become the past…and what you said will have been a blessing or it will have been a CURSE

...YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today

GIVING 

 

(These thoughts are added to each day. Scroll down and read previous One A Days.)

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

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Two farmers were discussing stewardship one day and one farmer turned to the other and said “Ezra, if you had 100 sheep, would you give 50 of them to the Lord?”

“Why, sure I would Zeke” came back the reply.

“And if you had 100 cows, would you give 50 of them to the Lord?”

“Wouldn’t even think twice Zeke, I’d just do it.”

“If you had two pigs would you give one of them to the Lord?”

“Now Zeke,” came back the reply “That ain’t fair. You know I got two pigs.”

Someone has written “Giving is not a way of raising money. It is God’s way of raising men.”

There are more reasons for giving than those shared below but I believe these reasons are primary.
First
1. Law – God commands it.
2. Love – gratitude demands it
3.
Second
It is natural – contrary to all selfish opinions, it is the nature of man to share. When he restricts this nature, he begins to shrivel up inside.

Third
Discipline. Someone has written “The future of the world lies in the hands of disciplined people.”

Let me close with this thought.

Which would you prefer to have written on your tombstone?

HE GAVE TOO MUCH

Or

HE GAVE TOO LITTLE

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