HANDS (2nd in Series)

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When a discussion on being a Christian comes up, why such emphasis on service?  Because service is the rent we pay for the space we occupy.  Hear this poem and consider it:

Christ has no hands but our hands

to do His work today.

Christ has no feet but our feet

to lead men in His way.

Christ has no tongue but our tongue

to tell men how He died.

Christ has no help but our help

to lead men to His side.

We are the only Bible

this careless world will read.

We are the sinner’s gospel,

we are the scoffers creed.

We are the worlds last message

written in deed and word.

What if the print is crooked,

what if the type is blurred?

What if our hands are busy

with other work than His?

What if our feet are walking

where sin’s allurement is?

What if our tongues are speaking

of things His lips would spurn?

How can we hope to help Him,

and hasten His return?

                                                                                                                        (Anonymous)

 

Committing the golden rule to memory is of little value until it is committed to life. 

Never did I sit down with my children and suggest they set as a goal for their lives and living the accomplishment of failure. 

To do nothing, and be nothing. 

Never did I suggest that great happiness would come their way if they gave up easily; had no morals; were mental, emotional, physical and spiritual slobs. 

Always I admonished them to excel, to achieve, to dream. 

And if it is true of me, can something less be expected from our heavenly Father?  From the 10 Commandments to the Beatitudes to the admonitions to love and forgive beyond compare, does not God set before us superlatives? 

Wanting us to be doers rather than deadheads. 

To give blessings rather than curses.  To seek solutions rather than problems.  To be peacemakers rather than provokers.  To be builders rather than destroyers.

James 2:14-17

 

“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”

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HANDS (1st in Series)

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Eight fingers and two thumbs.  So describes your hands, which are really history books on review.  Look at them and let them remind you of all that they have done in your lifetime.  For yes, they have been servants of your thoughts and beliefs translated into action.

Ask   yourself how many have they helped?

How many have they hurt?  When, and where and why?  When you have extended them in acts of fellowship they were a blessing.  When they have been extended in acts of major or minor violence they have been a curse.

            Have they been giving hands?  Or stealing hands?  Hands that have held books of inspiration or books of filth? Have they written notes of thanksgiving to give joy or poison pen letters to destroy?  They can be a surgeon’s hand holding a knife to heal.  Or A murderer’s hand holding a knife to kill. 

Hands tell us so much about the person.  Hands clasping and unclasping, not at ease.  Hands lying quietly, at peace with the world and God.  Hands blasting a horn, giving a finger, sometimes hands much too angry.

            There is a tinge of paint on the hands – an artist and the world is seen as a place of beauty.

            He washes his hands over and over and over again.  His name is Pilate and he cannot seem to ever wash them enough.  For him, the world is a place of overwhelming guilt.

            His hands are steady, persistent, patient, as he holds the sextant.  Look closely for these are the hands of Christopher Columbus.

This hand pens a large, bold signature; large enough for fat King Charles to read without his glasses.  It is John Hancock’s hand signing the Declaration of Independence, and then passing it on this great document on for other hands to sign.

            During World War II, Sir Winston Churchill raised two fingers to form a V for victory.  And on the battlefields of that war, as done by countless generations before, so many hands were placed together in the sacred act of prayer.

            As legend tells it, many years ago in a certain church, on a very particular day, all the people were asked to bring great gifts to lay upon the altar.  All had been told that the greatest gift would cause a miracle - that a heavenly choir would burst forth with song.  And so they came, bringing boxes of gold, silver, jewels, and spices.  All kind of wealth.  A long line of hope and yet nothing happened.  Silence.  Unrelenting silence.

            Then, slowly there came walking down the aisle a peasant girl.  Her tattered clothes hung loose.  Her pale fingers almost luminescent as she moved toward the towering piles of magnificent offerings.  Kneeling, she reached forward and put down…. her hands. . . and left them there. 

For a long time she moved them not, offering them to God.  It was all she had, and she gave it..  Then softly, at first no louder than a whisper, came the sound of a celestial chorus, building to a crescendo.  The very walls reverberated with angel voices of acclamation.  For yes, her gift was the greatest, the most wondrous, the gift of self.

            Someone once wrote, “God takes a hand wherever He can find it.  Here, the hand of a mother to guide her child; there, the hand of a neighbor to be a friend.  The hands of those who believe.

Romans 12:2

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

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Each week there is also a serialization of his novel RUST ON MY SOUL and serialization of another of his books 60 PLUS AND NOT HOLDING

MANY OF THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK FOR BETTER LIVING ARE GOOD FOR ANY AGE. (This book is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief  that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.”  (Susanne K. Langer)

TO VISIT Neil’s other blog WYRICK’S WRITING (A variety of serializations; a novel on Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday varying subjects) (3 times a week added to)

 

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To access info his other book’s and get some great used book prices, go to Amazon.com (books) and type in Neil Wyrick.

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A quote below from tomorrow’s ONE A DAY blog entitled   HANDS (2nd in Series)

From the 10 Commandments to the Beatitudes to the admonitions to love and forgive beyond compare, does not God set before us superlatives? 

Wanting us to be doers rather than deadheads. 

To give blessings rather than curses.  To seek solutions rather than problems.  To be peacemakers rather than provokers.  To be builders rather than destroyers.

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WHICH IS BETTER TO BE? A WINDOW OR A DOOR

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One wonders about a man who could ask to be placed on his tombstone the following.

“Don’t bother me now.

Don’t bother me never.

I want to be dead

Forever and ever.

How much better to hear yet another man sing to the stars

“I heard the voice of Jesus say,

I am this dark world’s light.

Look unto me thy morn shall rise

And all thy day be bright.D

Want to make it right?  Then remember the answer of Henry David Thoreau when he was asked as he lay dying, “Have you made peace with God?”

Pausing to gain enough breath he said, “We never quarreled.”

It is easier to be a window than a door.

Because a window you look out at life and a door you go through to become a part of life.

It is far too easy to marry the ideas and attitudes of the lukewarm; to become disciples of the indifferent. 

"Here I stand," said Martin Luther and proved that one man's commitment can make a difference. "Here I stay," say many and enshrine the status quo.

"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord"...the world is listening

"Do not hide your faith under bushes."...the world is looking.

Someone once wrote, "The entrance fee into the Christian life is nothing, but the annual subscription is everything." Because Christianity is not just a belief, it is an investment.

Even more than that it must be an involvement.

Every day is a voting booth. And when it comes to moral values we must not stumble and we must not strut but we certainly must stand firm.

Do you believe Christianity is a fact? Then work to make it a force.

You faith a shining light both for you and all who know you.

 

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Each week there is also a serialization of his novel RUST ON MY SOUL and serialization of another of his books 60 PLUS AND NOT HOLDING

MANY OF THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK FOR BETTER LIVING ARE GOOD FOR ANY AGE. (This book is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief  that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.”  (Susanne K. Langer)

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A quote below from ONE A DAY blog entitled   DON’T HANG OUT WITH YOU ANGER!

Eight fingers and two thumbs.  So describes your hands, which are really history books on review.  Look at them and let them remind you of all that they have done in your lifetime.  For yes, they have been servants of your thoughts and beliefs translated into action.

Ask   yourself how many have they helped?

How many have they hurt?  When, and where and why?  When you have

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PILLOW MY HEAD ON NO GUESSES

 
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2 Corinthians 5

Awaiting the New Body

 ¹ For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

It was Joseph Cook who said, "Pillow my head on no guesses when I die."  Paul spoke of our future in the strongest possible terms.  In 2 Corinthians 5:l he says, "We know." 

He doesn't say, "We think, we hope, we believe, we trust, we expect" but "we know." 

 And what a magnificence in this Son of God come to walk this earth and make wide the proof of the door to eternity.

He spoke of judgment and justice and of what is required if one is to find salvation.  The sweep of his ethical demands was wide and narrow all at the same time; for sin is sin and temptation is never weak.

As He spoke He knew what his disciples could not know, that one day before they would show courage they would exhibit cowardice.  That from this place of beauty on the side of a mountain He would journey to a lonely and unattractive hill called Golgotha.

Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”  He would think it many times.  Finally He would say it on a cross for the whole world to hear.

But courage would win out and the message be spread far and wide.  And the resurrection would leave future generations in a state of awe as it did these first men who walked with and gave their lvies to Christ.

And you I, bow our heads or fall to our knees, or both and say, “Love reigns from the throne of grace.  An eternal love.”  And such a peace we find when we repeat this truth once and even more times each day. 

And when we think of love…think of that old truth…What we are is God’s gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.

 

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To read this book

 

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Each week there is also a serialization of his novel RUST ON MY SOUL and serialization of another of his books 60 PLUS AND NOT HOLDING

MANY OF THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK FOR BETTER LIVING ARE GOOD FOR ANY AGE. (This book is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief  that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.”  (Susanne K. Langer)

TO VISIT Neil’s other blog WYRICK’S WRITING (A variety of serializations; a novel on Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday varying subjects) (3 times a week added to)

 

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL

http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com

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To view his One Man Dramas on film (see by millions, live and on film and on video)(Martin Luther, Ben Franklin, Charles Wesley, Abraham Lincoln)

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING

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********************************

 

To access info his other book’s and get some great used book prices, go to Amazon.com (books) and type in Neil Wyrick.

 BOUNDARIES UNLIMITED, RUST ON MY SOUL, POOR RICHARD’S ALMANAC, I AM SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING, THE ABC’S OF PARENTING AND GRANDPARENTING, LETTERS TO AMERICA…

 

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A quote below from ONE A DAY blog entitled   IT IS EASIER TO BE A WINDOW THAN A DOOR

Want to make it right?  Then remember the answer of Henry David Thoreau when he was asked as he lay dying, “Have you made peace with God?”

Pausing to gain enough breath he said, “We never quarreled.”

It is easier to be a window than a door. To watch life in action rather than try to influence it. To be neither good nor bad, but indifferent. Lukewarm is the way the Bible puts it. "Here I stand," said Martin Luther and proved that one man's commitment can make a difference. "Here I stay," say many and enshrine the status quo.

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