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Daniel Webster had a mind that had a love affair going with words and their impact on circumstances when properly used., This lawyer and statesman thought so fast on his feet that someone once said, “If he could run as fast he thinks he would set a world’s record no alter the distance.,”
One day Webster’s father before he left the house, gave Daniel and his brother Ezekiel specific instructions for a work project.
However, on his return he found none of the work accomplished.
Questioning his two sons about their idleness he asked “What have you been doing, Ezekiel?”
“Nothing,” came back the reply.
“And what have you been doing Daniel?”
“Helping Zeke, Sir…Helping Zeke.”
Who
have you been helping to pursue idleness by your example and what
excuses have you used to excuse your lack of proper action or behavior? Or have you made no or few excuses because you have been making a life.
The practice of oopism (excuses) is the easy out of many if not most problems/
It is inconvenient to care.
It is inconvenient to accept blame.
It is inconvenient to have to do something about something.
Saying oops is easier and often much more convenient. And “Oops! I made a boo boo,” really doesn’t sound nearly as bad as, “I just committed a sin.”
What if Joseph of Arimathea had not gone to Pontius Pilate and begged the body of Jesus – because of the inconvenience. And instead had later said, “Oops, there I go again with my procrastination.”
What
if Paul had not gone out on his missionary journey because of the
inconvenience and had instead later said, “Oops there I go again with my
lack of resolve.”
What
if Jesus, with all of His humanity side showing, had stayed in Nazareth
instead of moving out to preach and had later said, “Oops, there I go
again ignoring God’s will.”
Remember the Priest and the Levite who passed by the wounded man because, after all, it was inconvenient to stop and help him?
I always tell new Christians that if they are looking for a convenient faith, then look somewhere else besides Christianity. There
is nothing convenient about a faith that tells us to love our enemies,
to control our anger, to give our money, to practice humility and
perform the inconvenient.
The word of the cross is folly to those that are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18) It is the book of Corinthians speaking to Oopsism, because the word of the cross does not offer an easy way out. It cries out for conversion and repentance. It accepts blame, rather than throwing it in the general direction of ones fellowman. It denounces Oops. It abhors Oops. It demands that the Lord be taken seriously and His teachings seriously and life seriously.
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I almost drowned once. It is
a terrifying experience. One gets very used to breathing. I had taught
swimming in summer camp. Passed the Red Cross Life Saving course.
Water-skied 50 miles an hour. Now I found I could not even stand to have the water flow over my face when I took a shower.
So I had two choices. Give in to my fear or fight it.
I
fought it. Stuck my head in a few inches of water in a basin for five
seconds, then ten and finally a minute. I kept working on my private
demon until one day, six month later, I was behind a ski boat with ski
rope in hand. I was filled with panic, not just fear. I skied anyway. I
fell and did not drown. I began to overcome the anxiety.
I
refused to have a love affair with fear that could have become a
permanent downer. Did I completely conquer my fear? No. Was I better off
than if I had given in? Definitely.
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number of years ago two scientists conducted an experiment with a
sheep. They tied a piece of wire around the leg of a normal sheep in the
midst of other sheep. Then at regular intervals they would send an
electric shock through the wire making the leg twitch. The sheep’s
behavior remained normal. He ate well, slept well, acted quite nicely,
twitching appendage and all. Then the scientists added another factor.
They
began to ring a bell ten seconds before they administered the shock.
Within a very short period of time the sheep began to demonstrate all
the symptoms of severe anxiety neurosis. His eating habits went from bad
to worse. He couldn't sleep. He took to avoiding the other sheep. He
became highly nervous and agitated.
It is
the same with all the people who every day promise themselves it is
going to be a bad day, and then work very hard at making their prophecy
come true.
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It
is one thing to know what should be done. It is always something else
to do it. Surmise then that his Bible knowledge offered
motivation-thoughts such as “Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom.
Though it cost all you have, get understanding.”2
Part of his education would today be called survival school. As in all
pioneer families, the possibility of disaster was never far away.
There were no guarantees when a farmer walked out his door come morning
time that he would come back through that same door when dusk arrived.
Abe once killed a hundred snakes no more than a hoot and a holler from
the family doorstep.
The
thick, dark woods held bears ready to attack and Indians to scalp.
Homesteaders early learned to sometimes walk backwards rather than
forwards. That way, an Indian up to no good, coming upon footprints on
the forest floor, would be confused as to which way his intended victim
might be going. Even in church every man had a rifle by his side while
others outside stood guard.
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