DON’T TREAT YOUR FAITH LIKE A SUNDIAL

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We want to be able to look back at our lives and be pleased by what we see. Why would we want otherwise? Because too often we play a game of rewrite. 

 
Why? Because it is so easy to take up homesteads in the valley of indecision, water our flock at the river of procrastination, build our fences with wood from the forest of false promises, get our seeds from the market of the devil and then wonder why, when the harvest of memories is gleaned, it is so full of hell.


Because none of us is perfect we all do the above, some more, some less…but no one can say they have never been guilty of such behavior.
How to avoid this? Well…first, don’t treat your faith like a sundial! To understand that statement, let me share another story.

A group of American young people, having learned of a tribe that were quite primitive in their way of living and looking at life, wanted to help bring them into this century.


These people had little concept of time, other than night and day, so the eager youths thought that if they could just get the concept of hours over to them, they might become more industrious and improve their lifestyle.


And after much discussion, they decided to send a sundial, for you see a modern clock would require electricity and there was none, and batteries would soon lose their power, and even an old fashioned spring-wound clock would soon get rusty in their climate.


When the sundial arrived the natives were elated.


They beat their drums and danced with glee. And then one of them made a suggestion. “Let us build an altar to place it on that raised pedestal that we might show respect for this present.” So they did. And daily they treated the sundial with ever growing veneration.


Then they decided that it needed proper protection from the weather and as the sides of hut they were building grew taller and taller, less and less sun could make its way to their sundial.

And when they were finally finished, the roof totally blocked out the sun. But there, properly resting upon its throne, the sun dial was daily worshipped. Of course, the sundial no longer worked.

And so it is back to my statement before this story.


Don’t treat your faith like a sundial. Don’t cover it up with honor and respect while never taking it out into the stream of life. Take it out where it will be tested. Give it the chance to grow in the midst of adversity. Shelter it and it will die or at the very least become a strangled, stringent shadow of what it otherwise might be.

 
“Give to the Lord the glory due to His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness or in holy array.” Psalm 29: 2
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROW’S ONE A DAY BLOG entitled A FUNERAL SERVICE

“It may be carrying things a bit far, but perhaps it should be a custom to have a funeral service when someone has let their conscience die.


All the family and friends of the man or woman should attend; and by so doing…”
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A QUOTE FROM THE PRAYER SERIES

“When you prayed, first did you listen? Some people take the scripture that reads “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth” and rewrite it to read, “Listen Lord, thy servant speaketh.” (1 Samuel 3:10)


Could what you prayed for be considered a Christian prayer? Remember …if you end your prayer with the words “In Jesus name” you certainly want to have prayed a prayer he would approve. 

 
Was it a prayer you really wanted to be answered, something you really wanted to take place, an improvement in your person you were really committed to following through on. A half hearted prayer is a wasted opportunity.”
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