INVITE YOUR SOUL TO COME ALONG FOR THE RIDE

Below is YOUR ONE A DAY (Note from Neil) & "A ONE LINER FOR YOUR SOUL" 

 

     Take this seed of a thought below and turn it into a wisdom tree.

 

      KNOCK A HOLE IN THE DARKNESS

Do you complain that all around you is darkness?  Then be a light.  Be a star of Bethlehem and knock a hole in that darkness.  Make a miracle by not just admitting the existence of God but finally, truly sharing Him with absolute awe and worshiping Him with absolute adoration.

 

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INVITE YOUR SOUL TO COME ALOMG FOR THE RIDE

One dark stormy Atlantic night, many years ago, an old ship captain was hopelessly lost and confused.

Just as he came to terms with his confusion a passenger came rushing up and asked, “How are things going, Captain?”

With a sardonic tone in his voice, the captain replied, “Going? Well, actually we’re lost, but as for going, we’re sure making good time.”

This describes countless millions. Making good time, but terribly confused. Rushing from one chaotic pillar to the next irrelevant post.

Practicing the religion called “gimme and always on the go.”

Following after the mistaken idea that a lifetime is measured by the amount of kicks an individual gets. Spending a lifetime trying to live it up until one day there isn’t much time left to live it down.

It is far too easy to do. Losing honor and self-respect by trying to be everything to everybody. Losing Godly morals because they get in the way. And going to church? It isn’t the answer, unless the soul comes along for the ride.

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WHERE IS YOUR FOCUS AND WHERE SHOULD YOU GO LOOKING FOR IT?

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      THE GREAT GOD HIMSELF

 

Handel wrote the “Messiah” in a little more than three weeks.  During this period of time, he seemed in the world, yet not of the world.  He forgot to eat.  He forgot to sleep.  When Part Two was finished, which contains the Hallelujah Chorus, he walked to the window and with his eyes glistening with tears said, “…I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself.”

              

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In C.S. Lewis’s book SCREWTAPE LETTERS the devil tells of a man who goes into a library to read and think. It is quiet and peaceful and his mind begins to turn to God.

Quite naturally, in not that long a time, he begins to think of eternity and his place in the scheme of such heavenly things.

Then, the little demon who has been assigned to him by the big devil, for this is what the book is all about, takes over. .

He makes him aware of the sounds of the street. They are muted, but if he takes his mind away from meditation and God, he can hear them.

Before he had not heard the cry of a paperboy calling out the latest news (remember, this book was written over half a century ago) but now he does, and the roar of the engines and the constant tooting of horns. All reverberations of where he lives, earth, and not about heaven.

And so, because of these earthly sounds, his mind wanders further from God.

It is not that they are bad sounds.

It is just that it is difficult for man to focus on more than one thing at a time. Soon he finds himself growing very hungry.

He looks at his watch. It is almost lunch time.

Other things intrude and soon any thoughts of God are really on the back burner.

He has been delivered from the danger of daring to think about God. And the devil is happy and the little demon received his proper and, he felt, well earned hellish award.

Isaiah 40:31
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

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DON'T CUT YOUR CONSCIENCE TO FIT A FASHION

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               OUR POTENTIAL

We have a choice.  We can believe there is a “maggot in every human brain” (author unknown) and no spiritual exterminator capable of its destruction.  We can point a finger at the hypocrites and give up on mankind.  We can believe in a great plan which, once given to man, was wrecked beyond recall.  Or, we can believe in the spark of heavenly possibility.  That in the midst of the worst of darkness God wants us to leap, or at least crawl, toward the light. 

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DON'T CUT YOUR CONSCIENCENTO FIT A FASHION

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The Grand Dame of playwrights Lillian Hellman was a hero and there are not enough of them to go around.

When it was not at first the popular stand, she stood up against the Senator McCarthy’s witch-hunting committee on communism in the movie industry and refused to testify.

She decided he was fishing without enough bait.

Decided that, yes, there were communists and that communism was bad but not everyone he was trying to incriminate was a communist. And so courageously she spelled out her reason, “I will not cut my conscience to fit the year’s fashion.” Finally, she was proven right, but for a time she stood alone.

He who is steadfast in righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) attains to life, but he who pursues evil does it to his own death. Proverbs 11: 19
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PEACE OF MIND

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      Take this seed of a thought below and turn it into a wisdom tree.

SPIRITUAL SPRINTERS

 

Men and women on fire for God don’t need a starter.  They are spiritual sprinters in perpetual motion. 

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PEACE OF MIND

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Thoreau suggested that a man be judged by what he can live without.

So what is clutter? It’s when the inconsequential becomes a necessity. It’s when and if we reach a point we don’t think we can live without all the things we should certainly be able to live without.

A question.

If you chase happiness only in a Cadillac or a new van and rest after such labors on a Beautyrest, is it then guaranteed you will be happy?

If you wear success like a golden crown with all its attributes, is it now a guarantee that you will be happy?

If so, then why is the suicide rate higher among the haves than the have-nots?

Of course, we all don’t agree on what’s clutter. Some would say church clutters up a perfectly good weekend. Others would argue that honesty can clutter up an otherwise profitable business deal. And too many would argue that God’s commandments clutter up life with guilt.

One man’s blessing is another man’s clutter.

So perhaps as a way of finding out what you don’t want, I should ask what do you want?

Peace of mind? I think we can agree that just about everyone wants that, yet too few manage to have it.

Peace of mind is one of those things you cannot buy or barter for.

You can learn about it, but that doesn’t mean you will find it.

Fifty years ago, millions of people bought a book entitled “Peace of Mind.” But millions didn’t instantly obtain it because peace of mind just can’t be captured inside the cover of a bestseller… that is, unless you mean the Bible.

The book of Galatians spells out how to get it and keep it, “The fruit of the spirit is peace.” (Galatians 5:22)

Which means you can’t have apples, or pears or peaches or even pomegranates without a tree. And God is our tree and the fruit from that tree is peace of mind. But if you don’t fertilize your Tree of Peace with prayer and Godly thoughts it will never really grow too well.

A man cannot have peace of mind until he has peace with God.

He can read books, build mountain retreats, putter in his garden, swat at a fuzzy round tennis ball, pound a tiny dimpled ball to death on a golf course, luxuriate over a cold drink. But apart from God, it is all sound and fury signifying nothing. Least of all peace.

Thou wilt keep him in – “Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]” John 14: 27Isaiah 26:3-

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WOULD YOU LIKE AN ORDER OF "DON'T WANT?"

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Is  your commitment a shout or a whisper?

 

          Call it what you will, but the life of a human being truly committed to Jesus shouts through thick and thin, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, dear Lord, I am yours

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Some farmers were sitting around a stove in a country store. Having solved most of the problems in the world, they got down to more mundane things.

One of the men just happened to mention that in a very short time he was goin’ to have a heap of yippin’ puppies all over his place and what fine bird dogs they were goin’ to be.

Another farmer broke in and said, “I want to get my name in early. I don’t want one.”

Well now, what don’t you want? Or do you hold to the theory that if a little will make you happy more will make you even happier?

Admittedly without wants the whole economic system would go boom in the night. If we never wanted anything, or bought anything or sold our value on the open market for a fair price, we’d be vegetables and the world would be a mess.

But, I still have to get back to the question, in the midst of all your wanting…what don’t you want?

Do you need to clean out your garage? And, pertinent to what I am talking about today, do you need to also clean up your want list as you clear up your thinking?

No one really knows what heaven will be like, but somehow I just can’t believe it will be a place of clutter. Somehow I think that part of its being heaven will be the gift of simplicity

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STRETCH YOUR FAITH FURTHER THAN EVER BEFORE

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IS  YOUR FAITH A VERB OR A NOUN?

Is your faith a verb or a noun?  If it is onl y a noun it has no more vitality than a sloth.

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Let me tell you a personal story. Forty-six years ago we were preparing to put on the Easter Pageant again.

It was in the Orange Bowl and even though much time, sets and publicity were donated free, I had already spent $4,000.and that figure was continuing to mount. Now $4,000, 46 years ago, was a lot of money. And we weren’t charging for tickets, we were just passing the plate.Rev. Frank Titus, our treasurer, walked into an executive board meeting and reported, “Well, gentlemen, we had $13 in the bank. I just received $7 more, so now we have $20. Fact is, I just got the liability insurance on credit.”

On Friday, the morning newspaper promised rain for Easter weekend. All of Friday and Saturday it was cloudy and it really did look like it was going to pour - and people don’t come to outdoor pageants in the rain.

But I never worried.

I had done all I physically could do, notice the phrase.. all I could physically do. And now it was out of my hands.

What happened when it was all over? We ended up $2000 in the black.

Good business practice? It wasn’t. Common sense? It wasn’t. Would I do it again? Sure would.

Sometimes a leap of faith no matter the outcome just has to happen. That grain of mustard seed is another way of putting it.

Matthew 17:20 (King James Version)
“…If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”

 
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WHAT IS YOUR CONCEIT QUOTIENT?

YOUR NOTE FROM NEIL & A ONE LINER FOR YOUR SOUL 

      Take this seed of a thought below and turn it into a wisdom tree.

There are two kinds of people in this world.  Those who complain about what happens and those who make things happen. 

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     WHAT IS  YOUR CONCEIT QUOTIENT?

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Almost 80 years ago, nine famous men, whose vanity was as great as their success, met at the Chicago Edgewater Beach Hotel. They were:

the president of the largest steel company,

the president of the largest utility company,

the president of the largest gas company,

the president of the N. Y. Stock Exchange,

the president of the Bank of Int’l Settlements,

the greatest wheat speculator,

the greatest bear on Wall Street,

the head of the world’s greatest monopoly, and a member of President Harding’s cabinet.

If there is a good reason to be vain they had good reasons enough, but 25 years later what had happened to each of these men?

The president of the largest steel company, Charles Schwab, had died in bankruptcy.

The president of the largest utility company, Samuel Insull, had died penniless.

The president of the largest gas company Howard Hobson, had gone insane.

The president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, was just released from prison.

The bank prsident, Leon Fisher, died a suicide victim.

The wheat speculator, Arthur Cutton, had died with not a dime left to his name.

The Wall Street bear, Jesse Livermore, also took his own life.

The head of the world’s great monopoly, Ivan Kruegar, had given up on life and died by his own hand.

The member of President Harding’s cabinet, Albert Fall, had just been given a pardon from prison so that he could die at home.

It wasn’t the wealth or the power that caused these men such shame and pain. It was what they had done it all for - Vanity. Wealth, power, fame fed their conceit. It was all they had lived for and it was not enough.

And do not confuse vanity with confidence.

What is the difference?

All the difference in the world. For confidence says, “I am God’s child, warts and all.” Confidence doesn’t need a mirror. It doesn’t need a steady stream of compliments to happily survive. Confidence endures quite easily even when being disagreed with. If you wear a crown of confidence rather than a tiara of vanity you can still feel secure in second place, third place or even last place.

When you are confident you just want to be your best and that’s quite enough to keep you busy without letting foolish vanity get in the way.

When Jesus came to earth, His vanity did not dictate that He be born in a mansion.
When He became an adult and began preaching and teaching, His vanity did not demand large audiences.

When He spoke to individuals, He did not first find out if they were important enough for Him to bother with and if they were acceptable to others.
Along with everything else He taught us was humility, and because He taught it, we, with confidence, should seek to practice it.

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