WHY GOD?

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Why God? 

          Why not! 

          Are you prepared to say you have no soul and accept the logical conclusions that must follow such an assumption? 

          Why a Savior for your sins?  What else do you suggest God do with them?  Ignore them?

          Why ask  God’s power to make you better? 

          Would you wish that instead you work toward being worst?

          Why God in the first place and the last place and all places in time and eternity? 

          Because he is ALMIGHTY GOD.  THAT’S WHY!!!!

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WHO WANTS TO BE A SLOTH?

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          There is a disease called religious slothdom and its symptoms are overpowering.

           It begins with just hanging round. 

          Never standing for anything or standing up to anyone for Christian principles.

          It would be wonderful if I did not have to make the comparison to those creatures who spend most of their living upside down in a tree, but unfortunately the world is filled with a breed of folk who spiritually are totally committed to non-commital. 

          Those intellectually uninterested and unconcerned about their souls.  

Like the sloth of the animal kingdom, they sniff at things and that is about as action-packed as their religious journeys ever become. 

To the sloth, change is an abomination. 

When it isn’t sleeping its usual 20 hours a day, it is speeding over the ground at 250 meters an hour.  

That sounds as if it is really going places…until you realize that one meter is equal to a little more than a yard.  

And when it is not terribly motivated, which is often, it slows down to 4 or 5 meters an hour. 

It is after all a sloth and has a reputation to uphold.  It is dedicated to graceful, fluid immobility and it accomplishes it exceedingly well.

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THE TRIP

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Prejudice never seems to let man go and thinking about it one day I wrote the following short story.  I first wrote this for the Presbyterian Survey magazine over 40 years ago…for yes, prejudice was alive and well in those days too.
 1 John 4:20

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

       He reached down and picked up the strange looking mechanism that kept trying to roll away from his grasp. It was some kind of flying machine; still warm from having entered their 237 degree atmosphere. The three suns in the sky seemed always to be trying to outdo each other.
          This was not the first missile to fall from out their sky.   And over the years, all those messages had kept coming and coming.  But most of what their kind knew had been learned from THE THREE who had actually visited that strange oblate spheroid.  Visited it once, but never again. 
          “What is it?” his companion asked with the trace of what might have been called a smile of anticipation.
“It is from earth.” 
          He raised his eyebrow and asked, “And you have been to earth?” 
        He paused before replying, “Yes, I was one of “THE THREE.” It was most depressing.”
          “Really?  They couldn’t see you, of course.”
          “Of course not.  I wore my invisibility shield.”
          “They are obviously of an inferior race.”
          They expressed their agreement in the way such agreements had been expressed for centuries. It was almost a litany as together they repeated, “The color of their skin is very pale, anemic to the eye.  Others of them are quite lack without luster.  Some even have a tinge of yellow. Some black. All kinds of different shades. They can’t seem to agree on a common color.”
       A younger member of the community had just arrived. It spoke “Heavens! No green skin? Then, of course, they must be inferior. And their customs?”
          “Barbaric!”
          “How so?”
          “They talk.”
          “Talk? You mean they actually speak? How uncouth! I thought all advanced races communicated by thought waves in this day and age.”
Their antennas glowed bright.
          “These do not, and such a myriad of languages and dialects! They can transmit hardly any distance at all and one nation cannot understand the other. That’s probably why they are always so angry with each other. And someone seems to be trying to gain more and more power all the time.”
          “Very archaic; no wonder they still have wars.”
          “And pollution is everywhere.”
          Another younger IT had arrived.  He wrinkled his glock and joined in the conversation, “Oh yes, I remember that from our own ancient history. You mean they still have it?”
          “It often makes them ill.” 
          “Well, naturally, from everything you’ve told us, it couldn’t be any other way. By the way, are there any exceptions in these…now what would you call them?”
          “Exceptions? Oh, yes…a few; but then you know how it is, once an earthling always an earthling”
          “We might be able to use the exceptions.”
          “Tell them they’re equal but treat them as if they aren’t?”
“OF COURSE!”
          “We could give them equal opportunities and they might produce.”
          “Possibly.”
          “Not too many. We wouldn’t want them to get delusions of grandeur.”
They had not moved for several time sequences. 
          “It is too bad, isn’t it?”
          “Tragic!”
          “But I guess that’s the way God wanted it.”
          “Yes, I certainly am glad He made me like I am.”
          “You have the most beautiful tentacles I’ve ever seen.”
          “Well now, your claws are nothing to be ashamed of.”
          “Come on, let’s slither over to the cone.  I’ll buy you an atomic soda.”
          “Thanks, don’t mind if I do.  This discussion has upset me terribly.
 

                                    Will we never learn?

John 13:35

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Hebrews 13:1

Let brotherly love continue.

Psalm 133:1

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?

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STUMBLING BLODKS OR STEPPING STONES

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yes the below is for sat dec 31 2011 2011

They had gone hiking in the Allegheny, a young boy and his even smaller sister.  Uneven rocks lay all around and they kept stumbling over them with increasing regularity.  The complaints of his little sister soon became unending.  “This path ain’t no good at all.  It’s all bumpy with rocks.” 

“Ah, sis,” the little boy grinning, said, “The bumps are what you use to climb on.”   

Another way of putting it?   When we are surrounded by stones, we must seek to turn them into positive speaking sermons, because life sure does get bumpy sometimes.  

            Examples abound.  A man’s investments go down hill and they don’t make it all the way back uphill, so he does nothing but fret and stew about his losses.  It never crosses his mind to consider that what he has left may will be more than many others have ever had.  He is frozen with frustration, a captive of his pessimism.  And from that point on he becomes his own worst enemy.

Another man loses a well paying job but is willing to work at another one paying less, being fully aware that there are many who have no job at all.  His salary may, or may not, get back to what it was but meanwhile he will still enjoy life despite rather than because.  He is not frozen with frustration, rather he is blessed with an on-going optimism.

A mother weeps without ceasing by the bed where a young child lies dying; and then later, curses God for a child now taken.  Another, through her tears, thanks God for having had the child at all. 

The Apostle Paul when he was prison-bound wrote, “I have learned to be content, content with whatever I have.  I know what it is to have plenty.  I know what it is to have nothing.”  There was no contentment in his circumstances.  Jails are not very nice places in any era. But Paul had a contentment his jailers could not take way. 

Just who are you?   When you are between the proverbial rock and the hard place, you often find out who you really are.   So in a sense, adversity introduces you to yourself.  You don’t find yourself at a carnival or on a carousel.  You find yourself when you may have fallen off the carousel and broken something and still look for things to be grateful.  Pain and problems do that, invite God into our lives in a way pleasure never can. 

Adversity drives some folk to their knees that otherwise would never consider it.  Should you embrace adversity as a friend? That may be a stretch, but then again maybe not, because like the ole mule, the only way to get our attention sometimes is to be hit on the nose by a two by four.

He, your Jesus and mine, said it and He meant it, “Come unto me, all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you peace… I will refresh you…”  Believe it.  Believe it with all your heart and mind and strength so that when you need His presence it is just like an old friend come to call. 

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ONE LETTER COMING UP

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            When you get hungry and sit down to eat breakfast, lunch or dinner do you praise your-self for such intelligent behavior?

           Do you expect to get a letter of appreciation from your doctor?

           Do you expect people to stop you on the street and congratulate you for not being physically anorexic?

          Of course not. 

          You eat because you are hungry.  It is natural.  It is giving into a biological craving.  You don’t eat - your body  starves.

          When you bow your head in prayer do you praise yourself for such intelligent behavior? 

          Do you expect to get a letter of congratulations from your pastor?    Do you expect people to stop you on the street and congratulate you for not being a spiritual anorexic? 

          Of course not. 

You pray because your soul is hungry.  It is natural.  It is giving into an ethereal craving.  You don’t pray - your soul starves.

          Yet people starve their bodies and their souls all the time.  Decide that if thin is good, then super thin is better.

           Decide if dieting is helpful, then eating almost nothing makes super sense.

           And whether it is food for the body or food for the spirit one thing is for sure, not eating well guarantees malnutrition.

           It is why there are bodies that are too skinny and souls that are too skinny, and spiritual and physical health that is bad then becomes worse.

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DARE TO BE DIFFERENT

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I know that rude, crude and forgetful have become far too often occurrences, but we are Christians. 

          We are supposed to be more loving, more considerate, more forgiving with heavenly goals dancing in our heads.

          We are expected to be able to say thank you with more ease.

          Dare to be different. 

          Grab hold of your destiny of little things and run with it. 

          Dare to let angel-thoughts run wild along the avenues of your soul.  Be nice, even if you have built up a reputation for being grumpy. 

          Smile, even when you don’t feel like it.

          Emerson once wrote, “The hero is no braver than an ordinary man.  He is just brave for five minute longer.”

          Saints are often not that much better than the ordinary individual, they are just better a little longer and a little more often.  One minute at a time, until that minute become an hour, and that hour becomes a day, and that day becomes a lifetime.

          Challenge yourself to be braver, better, wiser, more kind and compassionate - for just one extra minute a day.  Not all day.  Not from morn till night.  Just one minute more.  Then two minutes more and perhaps work up to three.  The power, the overwhelming power, of little things.

          Many argue, “If I can’t make big changes, I will make no changes at all.  If I cannot become perfect, I won’t even try to improve.”  And so, denying the destiny of little things, they become captive of the destiny of nothing.  (No thing.)

          One cynical philosopher musing on the matter wrote, “The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic and a terrible waste of time.” 

But he missed the point.  Because we do not achieve perfection does not mean we should not pursue excellence.

What must you do to have weeds in your yard?  Nothing.

What must you do to have a house go to wreck and ruin?  Nothing.

What must you do to let a life go to wreck and ruin? 

Nothing.

          But, little by little the weeds can be removed.  Little by little a house can be renovated.  Little by little a life can be put back together again.  Little by little by little some people begin to understand the destiny of little things.

It is what being human is all about.

The constant changing and re-arranging of who we are.  A little more listening to the conscience than talking back to the conscience.

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INCREASE THE WORLD'S KINDNESS

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          I read a story the other day of a woman standing at the bottom of an escalator totally terrified.  “I can’t believe this,” she kept repeating over and over again.  “I can’t believe this.  I’m, afraid to get on the escalator.  This has never happened to me before.”  She kept looking around as if asking others to affirm this fear was something new.  You could see it in her eyes.  “I’ve ridden escalators for years.  What’s wrong with me?”

          People grumbled as they passed her.  Some even muttered, “Crazy people shouldn’t be allowed out alone.”

          And then a woman walked up and said, “It’s all right.  Let me help you.”  And together they rode to the top of the escalator, the stranger lightly holding the woman’s elbow. It was not saving a city.  It was not building a dynasty.  It was a simple, small act of kindness that saved, in many ways, a life.

The destiny of little things.

          “God surely did make a mess of this world,” complained one man.  “I could have certainly make a better world than this.”

          “Friend,” his neighbor replied, “that’s why you were given life.  To do just that.”

          Helping a frightened lady up escalators.  Congratulating a $5-an-hour worker on doing a good job.  Writing a short note to a friend that reads, “Thank you for being my friend all these years.  I just wanted you to know how much better my life has been because of it.”

The destiny of little things.

          Will people you complement be left speech-less?  Most likely, because people don’t complement each other very often.  They would rather wait until a person is dead and then stand around at the cemetery saying what a great person they were.

          Dare to be different.  Dare, this very day, to do nothing more than walk up to a friend and say, “Thank you.”

I’m serious.  Look around right now, and pick out someone you’ve known, loved and appreciated for years, and when walk up to them and say, “Thank you, Louis; Thank you, Bruce; Thank you, Jean; Thank you, Jane….”  Think how wonderful it will be to have such words of love and appreciation echoing around the narthex and fellowship hall.  And just don’t think about it – lovingly, considerately, out-goingly DO IT!

When you do it I will say thank you for the richness of these two little words to someone’s life.  Thank you…thank you…thank you…

You think it’s a good idea but you would be too embarrassed.  Too embarrassed to say something nice?  Are you too embarrassed to sometimes say something mean?  To speak out in anger?  Why then, is it so hard to be nice?

Tomorrow say something nice about some-one to that someone.  “Thank you, Joe.”  And Joe may fall of his chair.  “I appreciate that, Mary.”  And Mary may be dumbfounded.  But

I can guarantee, even if you don’t explain why you said something nice, whoever received your praise will feel good all the rest of the day because you made it obvious they have been a good and positive influence in your life.

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