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You OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER
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When Gen. George C. Marshall took command of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, GA,
he found the post in a generally run-down condition. Rather than issue
orders for specific improvements, he simply got out his own
paintbrushes, lawn equipment, etc., and went to work on his personal
quarters. The other officers and men, first on his block, then throughout the post, did the same thing, and Fort Benning was brightened up. Leadership by example.
BE AN AVIS CHRISTIAN: TRY HARDER
No doubt some people are too smart for their own good. They take
arrogance to new heights, and because they have reached great heights of
success, they figure anyone below them deserves any rudeness they
receive.
We can’t always be nice anymore than I could always get a hit when I
played baseball or score a touchdown every time I ran the ball.
Nevertheless, if I simply stood tall, dumb, and inactive, it was a guarantee I would never find success. So it is in the world of niceness vs. nastiness: you won’t get better if you allow yourself to be satisfied with worse.
One of the things I like about most Christians is that they are like Avis. They try harder.
The Apostle Paul tells us that this is exactly what we have to do. In his letter to the Ephesians, he says, “You were taught, in regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on a new self…”
Do you trust God? Or let me put it this way, can God trust you? Can God trust you to put your best foot forward? To read, remember, and try with all your strength to obey His commandments? To stumble because you tripped up but not to lie there, rather to get up and try again?
Christianity is not just a religion to make people nicer—even secular humanism preaches that. Christianity is the door to heaven.
By believing, and living as Christ taught us to do, we plug into the power of the Holy Spirit so that we are electrified with something bigger than ourselves. Such living, thereby, comes alive in a new and exciting way. Christianity? It is a cry to each of us to be Kingdom people; to blossom every day into more loving, caring individuals; to hold hands with the thought called miracle, and to give thanks that being born again actually begins to mean something.
“If you lie down with dogs, you will rise up with fleas,” said ole Ben Franklin. On the other hand, if you rise up daily with Christ by your side, you will rise up a better man or woman because you will feel eternity poking at your soul.
Nevertheless, if I simply stood tall, dumb, and inactive, it was a guarantee I would never find success. So it is in the world of niceness vs. nastiness: you won’t get better if you allow yourself to be satisfied with worse.
One of the things I like about most Christians is that they are like Avis. They try harder.
The Apostle Paul tells us that this is exactly what we have to do. In his letter to the Ephesians, he says, “You were taught, in regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on a new self…”
Do you trust God? Or let me put it this way, can God trust you? Can God trust you to put your best foot forward? To read, remember, and try with all your strength to obey His commandments? To stumble because you tripped up but not to lie there, rather to get up and try again?
Christianity is not just a religion to make people nicer—even secular humanism preaches that. Christianity is the door to heaven.
By believing, and living as Christ taught us to do, we plug into the power of the Holy Spirit so that we are electrified with something bigger than ourselves. Such living, thereby, comes alive in a new and exciting way. Christianity? It is a cry to each of us to be Kingdom people; to blossom every day into more loving, caring individuals; to hold hands with the thought called miracle, and to give thanks that being born again actually begins to mean something.
“If you lie down with dogs, you will rise up with fleas,” said ole Ben Franklin. On the other hand, if you rise up daily with Christ by your side, you will rise up a better man or woman because you will feel eternity poking at your soul.
THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
“A book superior in style and content)
Quote from book below
This
book is more than just a march down memory lane. It is certainly not a
search-and-destroy mission as are some historical efforts. It is
really a questing for an understanding of the man able to write, “He has
the right to criticize who has the heart to help.” “Am I not
destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” “It is the duty of
all nations as well as of men to owe their dependence upon the over
ruling power of God.”1 “With malice toward none; with charity toward all; right, as God gives us to see the right…”2
When
a president continues to think and speak this way, often commenting on
sin and mercy more like a preacher than a politician it is worth taking a
second look. When he called out for, “with firmness in the right as
God gives us to see the right,” 2 he did not just show
humility. Rather he asked for a national self-examination and that God
might be at the center of such evaluation.
A Quote FROM Rev. Wyrick’s 9TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN”
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