DON’T CHANGE…JUST WIGGLE

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Two little boys were caught stealing apples.

And they were caught. Held in two powerful arms they struggled to break loose and flee. “I’m sorry…we’re sorry” they cried and the first little boy meant it.

But the second little boy didn’t. He was just thinking of how next time he would sneak in the north side of the orchard where he was not as likely to be caught.

Repentance, of course says, “North side, South side or any side…I truly am sorry and I will not do it again.”

Repentance is not just sorry for what was done but for what one has become that allowed self to do it…whatever it is.

Repent and change or resign from a moral code.Repent or sharpen excuses.

 

Build a wall to keep sins in and the Savior out.

 

Be sorry and improve or simply be satisfied with things the way they are.

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The big problem is that more people are interest in being religious than being righteous.

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Luke 5:32
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

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IT WAS MY FAULT. I MADE THE MISTAKE

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In his biography of Samuel Johnson, Boswell relates how as a boy Johnson refused to go to the market place with his father, to sell books.

He was for some boyish reason ashamed.
Years later, he was shamed by his boyhood refusal so much so that as an old man he stood all one day in the spot where his father’s bookstall had been – the rain came down in torrents but he never moved.

He was repentant.

There is nothing more difficult than go say, “It was my fault. I made the mistake. What can I do to make it right?”
It is not necessary to stand in the rain all day long but it is necessary to admit a wrong and then stand in the sunshine of God's forgiveness.

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I do not condemn you either. Go on your way and sin no more…( John 8:11)

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WHO WAS, IS AND EVERMORE SHALL BE CHRIST?

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Jesus said, “I and the Father are one.”

He claims to be sinless, “I do always those things which please Him.”Those closest to Him made equally fantastic claims.
Peter said “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”

John wrote, “In Him is no sin.” Third, even one of the Centurions who crucified Him said, “Surely this was the Son of God.”Rousseau, one of the great opponents of Christianity declared “If the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Jesus Christ are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Jesus Christ are those of a God.”

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Search and seek even further in putting words to He who is beyond words…and you find….Meakness but not weakness, joy without frivolity, sorrow without phlegmatism, sympathy without sentimentality, friendliness without patrony, generosity without condescension.

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THROWAWAYS

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In preparing an egg for breakfast you crack it, throw out the shell and keep the egg.
If you threw out both shell and egg someone might have you committed.

In preparing a watermelon for consumption you slice it and then dig in to the luscious red fruit in the middle.

If you threw away the fruit along with the uneatable rind people would begin to talk about you in a not too flattering manner.

And, a final analogy…suppose you washed a baby in clean water and afterwards the baby was clean but the water was dirty…and you then threw out no only the dirty water but the baby as well…people would wonder at your sanity.

And yet people do this with religious all the time… see things about it and the people in it they do not like …and then throw away religion.

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Oh, yes, and as to what religion is. Its original meaning is quite clear. It comes from the Latin word “re” meaning “back” and “ligare” meaning “to bind.”
Religion therefore means that which “binds back” or reunites man with God.

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“For God is not the author of confusion but of peace ...”
1 Corinthians 14:33
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THE GREAT GOD SAG

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The following story isn’t about what I did…but what the big “we” can accomplish by persistent consistently having a goal and never giving up on it. In all the areas of life. Or as this close out points out a warning about the great god Sag.

Fifty six years ago I came to Miami to start a new church in a school building. We had 8 people at our first service.

I had a dream…that we would grow…and we did. When I left to began traveling around the world as an evangelist we had over 400 in attendance each morning and close to 800 members…and how did that happen? By persistent consistent effort.

I got in and out of my car to knock on doors so many times…I wore out an unnumbered number of seat colors, broke the window twice from constant slamming the door (actually, one day it just fell off. I put it in the back seat and kept on calling.)

I kept the tire companies exceedingly happy as I wore out set after set of tires. I can still remember what I said when someone would come to the door, “Good morning (or afternoon, or evening) “My name is Neil Wyrick. I’m the minister at Palmetto Presbyterian Church” (which at this time was a rented school room on Sunday morning at South Miami Elementary School)

(We make a point of welcoming new people in our community to worship with us.) (I kept track of each and every For Sale Sign and when it went down I knew new folk had moved in)

THE POINT IS THAT I NEVER LET UP…AND NEITHER DID OTHER MEMBERS IN THE CONGREGATION…PERSISTENTLY CONSISTENTLY WE HAD A GOAL WE PURSUED DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY.

And this works in other areas of a life.

You need to improve your relationship with a friend, family member or even an enemy…then practice love persistently consistently in word and deed…day after day after day…and you will be amazed at the results.

Find you faults and persistently consistently pray to rid yourself of them…day after day after day…and you will be amazed at the results.

There is an alternative, of course…you can worship the great God Sag.

His teachings are, of course, persistent and consistent, “Give up on today, yesterday and tomorrow. Just sit and sag and die inside.”

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THE WAITING GAME

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What are you waiting for?

And is that all you are doing?

Waiting for wealth to fall in your lap without working for it?

Waiting for good health to daily visit you even though you continue do everything and anything that you know is wrecking your health.

Waiting for your child to be a shining example of self discipline when they see you as a shining example of something else. Waiting for your faith to grow stronger, your prayer life to increase without increasing your prayer life, waiting…waiting…waiting.Just waiting for things to happen just makes the waiter a candidate for a school for fools.

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Psalms 119:60 “I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments”

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WHAT EXCITES YOU?

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Have you ever gotten so excited about an individual you then read everything you could find about them? You became an authority on that quarterback or homerun hitter or track person. You could quote the in and outs of the thinking of that scientist or writer or public figure. You could not get enough of them.

What then of your knowledge of Jesus. Have you…do you…read everything you can about them?
Have you become an authority on this Christ?

Can you quote the ins and outs of his thinking and his teachings and their meanings?

Can it be said you cannot get enough of Jesus?

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(John 20:28)
Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus did not rebuke him.
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THE ULTIMATE ANSWER ALA SCHOPENHAUER

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His name was Schopenhauer and he was a pessimistic well known author philosopher.

And Schopenhauer was a very unhappy man.
He slept with a loaded revolver.

He never married.

He refused to trust a barber enough to get a haircut.

He had an illegitimate son but refused to recognize him.

He did not believe in God and flaunted his atheism.

To him atheism was the ultimate answer to the ultimate question.

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“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His
eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.”
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“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork” and this declaration and showing occurs day and night: “There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard” (Ps. 19:1-3).

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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory!
Isaiah 6:3

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A FRIEND CALLED ADVERSITY

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Once a little boy was leading his sister up a mountain path he had found and she complained, “Why this isn’t a path at all. It’s all rocky and bumpy.”

“Sure,” he answered, “but the bumps are what you climb on.”

Some people use the bumps in life to climb on while others just trip over them.
Some come out of suffering stronger.

Some come out weaker.

Some learn from pain and mistakes. Others wouldn’t learn if they had an eternity.
Thomas Edison, fired from his job on the railroad went on to become one of our greatest scientists.

Abraham Lincoln, at 46 considered himself a failure. He certainly built up a history of failure, failed storekeeper, failed in attempts to be elected to policitclal office, etc. He went on to become President of these United States.

Dr. A. J. Cronin began his work as a doctor, broke his health and retired to write. He became one of the world’s greatest and most beloved writers.

Whistler the artist wanted to be a soldier, but failed in a chemical examination. He often laughed and said, “If silicon had been a gas, I would have been a major general.”

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WHICH SHOUT ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION TO?

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If death shouts there is not a loving God…what does life shout?

If hate denies God’s goodness…what does love affirm?

If what you have lost has made you sad and bitter …what did what you had make you…thanksgiving…in case you cannot immediately place your finger on an answer.

In the Chinese language, there are two characters for the word “crisis”.

The one means “disaster” and the other “opportunity.”

The Psalmist had this insight when he wrote, “It is good for me that I have been afflicted (Psalm 119:71)

Because he knew that from difficulty, God makes maturity.

He makes trials and tribulations…teachers.

A little girl captured at least some of the magic mystical eternal truth of it all.
Running up to her mother, she said, “Oh, Mother, this has been such a happy day.”
“Really!” the mother replied.” and why is that? Why is today so much nicer than yesterday?”
“Well,” said the little girl, “Yesterday, my thoughts pushed me around and today I pushed my thoughts around.

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TITHE

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The word tithe does not seem to be mentioned so often in churches these days or perhaps I am just not aware.

Nevertheless, I would share with you a tithing story because there is such muscle for the soul in its telling.

A medical doctor who shall remain unnamed once each ten years spends one whole year in Africa ministering to the needs of sick natives there.

Hew explains this unusual time management in the following manner.

“I was taught to tithe and so I tithe one whole year each ten. I tithe my skills as well as my money and I feel the better for it.”

Be a co-worker with God is one way of putting it.

Can you read? Take some time to read the blind or near blind.

Can you drive? Take some time to shop for someone old or sick or both.

Can you listen? Take some time to just sit with someone overcome with misery and listen. It will ease their pain not because you make some deep philosophical theological statement but rather because you show you care.

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JOY

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Once upon a time, over a hundred years ago, there was a man who made an unusual call on a pastor and made some rather unusual statements.

“Pastor,” he said as he sat down the ministers’ desk, “I am a good Christian and I can prove it.”

“Well, now,” responded the pastor, “and how are you going to do that.”

“Each morning when I get up I dress all in white.”

“All in white? And then what do you do.”
I put nails in my shoes.”

“Nails in your shoes.. For heavens sake, why do you do that?”

“For self mortification,” replied the man.

“Uh – um, and then what do you do?”

“I go out and I run naked in the snow in winter or if it is summer in the hottest part of the day. That way I am either cold and miserable or over heated and on the edge of a sunstroke.”

“And?”
“Before I go back home,” I stop by the blacksmiths shop and have him give me 40 lashes on my bareback.”

“And you believe this makes you a Christian?”

“I have suffered,” replied the man. “I have given up all joy and pleasure.”

Just then the sound of a horse was heard coming down the street and the minister went to the window and called the man over and pointed to the horse.

“See that horse, that is farmer Browns’ horse. He dresses in white all day and all night.

He has nails in his shoes.

He runs naked in the snow and on the hottest of days suffers from the heat.

And I am sure farmer Brown gives him at least 40 lashes a day…but he is still a horse.

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“Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him]; again I say, Rejoice! Philippians 4:4”

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There are those whose attitudes and actions do speak of the joy the Christian faith offers.

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“I was glad when they said to me, Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Psalm 122:1
To be a Christian certainly does not mean to seek suffering but rather reacting to suffering in a positive way.
“Be happy [in your faith] and rejoice and be glad-hearted continually (always).”
1 Thessalonians 5: 16

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A REMARKABLE WOMAN

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It was an old and tattered Bible and a grand daughter was going through her missionary grandmothers things and she began to read the simple script.

The funeral had just come to an end and she thought on what an extraordinary woman her grandmother had been.

As she read tears formed and tickled the edges of a smile that was also written across her face.

Memories do that when are worthy of being remembered.

The words were that moving, “God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Put any burden on me, only sustain me. Sever any earthly tie, save that which binds my heart to thee.”

Not gold or power or perfect physical health or comfort or every desire of heart and head but rather the ability to live by something besides bread alone.

“You were a remarkable woman,” whispered the grand daughter to herself. “You were a remarkable woman.”

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IT’S LATER THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN BEFORE

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Some men sat in a hotel lobby long after dinner and talked and talked and talked.
Finally, as the old grandfather clock tolled out a very late hour it strangely enough tolled thirteen.

When that happened one man looked at everyone else and said, “Well, fellows, it must be later than it has ever been before.’

And with these words he rose and left.

We’ve all already lost yesterday and today is hard upon us and tomorrow is yet another series of decisions.

May we learn from those yesterdays rather than just yearn for those yesterdays. Indeed, let us not continue to make the same old mistakes and expect different and improved results.

May I set before you some thoughts to help you make better decisions from these yesterday studies?

Work toward being what your mother and father wanted you to be at your baptism and how you would like to be remembered at your funeral.
Stand for the best and fall for nothing.
One author put it well, “What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.”

And pray a simple but persistent prayer “Dear Lord, guide me or shove me, whatever it takes...to produce in my daily living an improvement program worth writing home about.”

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Psalm 119:105
”Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. (NIV)”

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LOOK UP…LOOK DOWN

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One day a minister wrote a stinging reply to a caustic criticism of him which appeared in the local newspaper.

Before he sent it, he had several of his ministerial friends look it over and make coment.

One of them worte across the top, “Not suffiently redemptive.”
In short, he had won his argument and lost his man.

He had proved that he was right. But the price had been too high.

Someone has described HUMILITY AS THE “upward tug of God.’ The slave is humble and looks down at the dust.

The Christian is humble and looks up to a heavenly Father.

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Matthew 23:12 “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

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A TOTAL STRANGER?

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Someone said of one woman, "She won't listen to her conscience. She doesn't want to take advice from a total stranger."

A policeman was writing a ticket for an expired driver’s license, and the man he was writing it for was not very happy. Then the policeman, Sgt. Ray Baarz of the Midvale Utah Police Department took it to the city judge…and paid his five dollar fine.

That’s right. He had written the ticket to himself.

“How could I give a ticket to anyone else for an expired license in the future if I didn’t cite myself?”

His conscience was alive and well and he had listened to it.

Indeed, may I suggest something you can do to see how well your conscience is working these days? When it speaks to you, ask yourself… what is its tone of voice and how does it phrase its messages?”

If it is saying to you, “You shouldn’t do that” then it is whispering and there is not enough shout in the message.

If it saying, “You must not do that” then obviously your conscience still has some vigor to it. Congratulations.
Jesus didn’t say, “I ought to do the work of He who sent me.”

Oh, no, He said, “I MUST DO THE WORK OF He who sent me.”

What I’m saying is, join the “MUST brigade” and give up membership in the “I oughta battalion.”

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2 Timothy 3:16-17, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."

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WHAT DO YOU FEED YOUR CHILDREN?

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A little boy looked up at his father and said :’Daddy, I love you as much as God can count.”

And the father thought of all the times he had been weary but still he went to his child’s bedroom and still told him a story…or rushed from work to make a ball game that meant so much to his son…and he remembered a host of times when he did not sacrifice or was too busy…and yet his son could say it and mean it, “I love you as much as God can count.”

And he thanked God for his little boy. And he prayed to have more stamina and to do what was right when he could hardly find any stamina…because “Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.” Colossians 3:21

Ah yes, I thought as I wrote these words. We feed our children's memories...oh but what do we feed them...and how the memories are golden or dross...and how it is never too late to improve the menu.

Yes, even if these children are now grown up and have children of their own.

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IF YOU FIND ANGER QUICKLY LOSE IT QUICKLY

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Her name is Captain Lisa Nowak and she shall be remembered for the rest of her life as the woman who let anger rule a portion of her life until it succeeded in ruining her life. Educated, skilled she had let the wind of anger blow out the lamp of her mind.

She was an astronaut and had enough brains to know better but anger is not known for reasonable behavior.

She was in love and another woman was stealing away another astronaut away from her.

It made her more than angry. It promoted an insane reaction that only got worse with the passing of each day.

So one day she followed Captain Colleen Shipman, the object of her anger, and said she just wanted to talk.

She ended up pepper-spraying her. She said she had no intention of harming her, yet police officers found in the trunk of her car a steel mallet, a heavy knife and a BB gun.

The most bizarre par of the story was that she drove all the way from Houston to Orlando wearing a diaper so she would not have to stop.

That was a long drive, a lot of hours, one would think that worn down she would finally have lost her anger but she didn’t.

Instead, for hours on end she fed it.

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Ecclesiastes 7:9 “Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.”
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HE HAD TO BE DIVINE

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Someone once said of Jesus, “He had to be divine. No mortal man could have been that patient.”

Indeed, Jesus could not have loved so much if He had not been patient so often.

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James 1:19-20
”My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” (NIV)
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WHAT’S EATING YOU

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Once, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister in England during the Second World War had been listening to a long-winded ill tempered vituperation of an angry opponent.

At the end of the tirade he rose to his feet and said, “My honorable colleague should, by now, have trained himself not to generate more indignation than he has the capacity to hold.”

Perhaps an oyster is one of the finest examples of patience in action. It takes an irritation and makes it a pearl.

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“And in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control, and in [exercising] self-control [develop] steadfastness (patience, endurance), and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] godliness (piety).” 2 Peter 1: 6

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LOVE!…PLEASE DO NOT LET GO OF ME

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In the 1930’s, Roland Hayes, a gifted negro singer, stood before a hostile Nazi audience in Berlin’s Beethoven Hall.

As he tried to sing, they called him every dirty name that his race had ever endured.
In telling of the incident, he says “Resentment began to swell up inside me. I began to feel toward them what they felt toward me, and then, for some strange reasons, I remembered a sermon I heard as a little boy.

The old minister standing there in the pulpit in my old home church, talking about Jesus before Pilate. About the angry crowd and the insults…and hoe he said…
“They pushed Jesus, they pushed Him real hard, but He never said a word, never a mumblin’word.”

And remembering His love, his forgiveness, I looked out at the crowd booing, hissing, insulting and I prayed silently, quietly, intently.
For ten minutes they never let up.

For ten minutes, I prayed not to become like them.

Then slowly, they quit and when it was quiet, I began to softly sing a song of Shubert.”
I first heard when I was still a boy and I never forgot it. I had gotten quite angry and my father who was the most patient man I ever met said it to me, “Son, just remember…you can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”

And so I learned early to let patience overwhelm me rather than anger...and how this lesson has saved a lot of pain for me and those around me.

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“Love is patient, love is kind. it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”

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SPIRITUAL LEVITATION

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Handel wrote the “Messiah” in a little more than three weeks. During this period of time, he seemed in the world, yet not of the world.

He forgot to eat.

He forgot to sleep.

When Part Two was finished (which contains the Hallelujah Chorus), he walked to the window and with his eyes glistening with tears, said “…I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself.

There have been moments I would hope for you when you have been almost like this.
When the gravity of earth seemed to let lose and your soul expanded and God was more near than ever before.

It may have been in a foxhole and it was dark and you were afraid in that war of so long ago.

It may have been on a mountaintop real and lifted high above a fog below or it may have been on a mountaintop of your own making for you had fallen to your knees.

But whether fear or fascination, if you have experienced God in such a greater moment, you still remember and you will never forget.

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"The eternal God is a dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms" (Deut. 33:27).
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WHAT DO PEOPLE SAY ABOUT YOU…ME?

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In the book “Babitt” by Sinclair Lewis, a man by the name of Paul Rieslinge has a vindictive scolding shrew of a wife by the name of Ella.

Lewis describes her in the following manner, “Zilla’s face was wrinkled like the Medusa, her voice was a dagger of corroded brass; she was full of the joy of righteousness and bad temper.

She was a crusader…who exulted in the opportunity to be vicious in the name of virtue.”

And people talk about us all the time and write us about us in emails. What do they say? We are in control of what they say to a large degree for their words simply mirror what they see and hear.

And oh yes…WHAT WOULD SINCLAIR LEWIS WRITE ABOUT YOU AND ME? 

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Philippians 4:4
"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all.
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A DIRECTION FOR WINNING

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Even if you are not a golfer there is a good chance that you will have heard of the famous St. Andrews golf course in Scotland.

There are many stories that have come off those links but few with so great an analogy as the following.

A visiting dignitary was vehemently arguing with his caddy on how he should play a particular hole.

The caddy’s response was priceless, “Sir, you may choose whichever club you want and hit in whatever direction you wish. I am only trying to tell you how to win the hole.”

And Jesus said, “I am come that (you) may have life and that you may have it abundantly”

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DO YOU LIKE YOURSELF?

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One day a little girl was playing alone in her back yard.
The next door neighbor saw her and said, “Mary, where’s your mother?”

“Asleep,” replied the little girl.

“And where’s your little brother?”

“Oh, he’s asleep too,”

“Aren’t you lonesome?”

“Oh, no,” the little girl answered back quickly, “I like myself.”

But there are people who don’t like themselves. They have given up on being a decent human being and feel that now it is too late to do anything about it.

But it is never too late.

And when you pray and push your way toward improving a little each day then one day you will have gone miles even though it was only an inch or half an inch a time.

So pray the following prayer or one like it.“God give me a push. God make me want you to give me a push.” You may come up with a different version of this prayer but all of us can be better and all of us need the help of our Almighty God.

And yes, the best way to be happy is to be nice and nicer…indeed so busy making other people happy nice automatically becomes a regular occurrence.

Nasty certainly isn’t all its cut out to be.

"The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink,but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." ~Romans 14:15

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OUT OF THIS WORLD

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There are those who believe the church should mind its business and stay away from social issues.

It seems to me that this is asking the church to influence the world by staying out of the world.

Matthew 5:14-16
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

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LOVE IS A SMILE ON THE FACE OF A WORLD THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BE A PLACE OF FROWN

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The little boy walked up to the lonely crotchety old maid and said, “Can I be your friend?”

She was never the same.

When the Destiny of little things is alive and well the world has a smile on its face that will not go away.

Proverbs 11:25 – “The generous person will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered.”

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HOW MUCH DOES IT WEIGH?

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There is the story of the man who weighed a human body just before and after death. And since he could measure no significant loss of weight he concluded there is no soul.’’

It might be well if he himself had been weighed before and after his opinion thus proving there was no weight to his opinion either.

"And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
Matthew 10:28
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YOU ARE YOU OR ARE YOU?

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If you are to find and fulfill your destiny you must realize that you are the first of you and the last of you.

There is not and never has been another like you.

It is not your task to imitate someone else.

It is not your task to be pushed or pulled by anyone else.

It is your holy responsibility to pray a prayer something like this;
“God let me know who I am and be the best “I Am” I can be.

Gene Autry found this out when he first tried to break into show business he dressed like a city slicker and said he was from New York.

He never made it until he admitted he was just plain ole country boy Gene Autry.

George Gershwin was once offered a job with Irving Berlin as his musical secretary at almost three times the salary he was being given at the time, but with these words of advice, ”Don’t take the job. If you do, you may develop into a second rate Berlin.

If you insist on being yourself, someday you’ll become a first rate George Gershwin.

You know…if you’re always fussing with God about how destiny has treated you or is treating you, you’ll ruin what destiny has left for you.
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THE UPWARD VISION

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He was just a little boy but he was a very wise little boy.

He would have liked to have lived on a hill overlooking a harbor where boats moved in and out and at night with their beautiful lights reflecting off the shifting waters.

He would have liked to have been able to sweep his eyes across a valley and watch a lovely lake in the distance or a river winding its way across the landscape.

But he couldn’t. His view was a dirty rusty railing and beyond that the broken windows of his neighbors who lived beyond their broken brick walls.

He was surrounded by slums and slobs and sin and the noise of fights often reverberated from below.

But he didn’t mope. He didn’t shout out complaints into the night. He simply lay back and looked up at the stars.

He had learned quite early in his life an important lesson.

He had learned the secret of “the upward vision.”
PSALM 147:4
”He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by
name.”

ISAIAH 40:26
” Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all
these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls
them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty
strength, not one of them is missing.”

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