THE RUBE GOLDBERG EFFECT

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A number of decades ago, a cartoonist by the name of Rube Goldberg used to make crazy drawings about crazier inventions.

A dog would chase a cat, who would knock over a pain of water, that would release a spring, that would activate a gun, that would fire and hit a target, that would ring a bell, that would make a punch drunk fighter get up off his stool, that would pull a light switch, that would enable a man to read his paper, who before had been sitting in darkness.

Absurd, but not impossible.

And ridiculous as these drawings were, they taughts a lesson.

They taught that all events are related to all other events.

An ounce of hate can cause a pound of trouble.
A word of faith can stop a suicide or start a mission field.

None of us ever completely knows who is listening or looking as we start some kind of domino effect.

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“He will keep in perfect peace all those who trust in Him, whose thoughts turn often to the Lord! Trust in the Lord God always, for in the Lord Jehovah is your everlasting strength.” (Isaiah 26: 4) 

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ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A LITTLE CHILD…

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His hair was golden from the sun, his heart golden so newly come from God.

He met his mornings with laughter. All kind of things were funny, or good or just plain nice.

He liked to curl his toes in the mud. He had a friend and sometimes they didn’t do anything particularly significant.

They just practiced friendship.

Sometimes when he said his prayers at night, he felt like he’d like to raise up and put his arms around God’s neck, give Him a good nights kiss, and say, “Gosh, it’s nice in this ole world. Even if I did get stung by a bee this morning, and stubbed my toe just before supper.

Gosh, its nice this world.”

God felt that close to him and it was good.

But then he grew up. He learned bad habits he was forced to defend.

Somewhere along the way he got too busy for God so that he never prayed at night anymore and Sunday mornings became an occasional burden.

And smart, he got very smart! So smart that he could damn God without blinking an eye, and friends – many of his friends he judged only by what he could get out of them.

His hair got so it wasn’t so golden anymore and neither was his heart.

Someone has said that the final judgment of any society is the kind of individuals it turns out. I would suggest that the final judgment of any individual is also the kind of society he or she turns out.

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"The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger..." Job 17:9

"I love you, Lord; you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety." Psalm 18: 1-2

"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song." Psalm 28:7
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WHAT MAKES A CHILD SO DIFFERENT?

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“A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.” That is the way the philosopher Mencius put it.

Jesus said, “Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

So what then has a child that is so special except an abundance of youth?

He cannot make money, he cannot build buildings. He cannot be an adult with all the superior ways and means of adult living.

A child can only laugh and play.

A child can only have a simple unsophisticated faith about God.

A child can only get mad easily and forgive quickly.

So what then, has a child that is so special? I think I have begun to answer the question.

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“And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
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I’M GOING YOUR WAY

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It was over a century ago and the older man was carrying a heavy suitcase in one hand and even heavier valise in the other.

And with every step it was becoming heavier. As he walked from the terminal down 42nd street, on his way to a hotel his breathing was becoming more pronounced.

He had always been blessed with good strength. Perhaps his age was catching up with him.
“Booker,” Booker T. Washington said to himself, “you can make it.”

Just at that moment, a pleasant voice said, “Pretty heavy, brother! Suppose you let me take it. I’m going your way.”

The black man resisted but finally allowed the young white man to assist him carrying his burden and for several blocks they chatted like old friends.”

 

“And that,” said Book T. Washington, born a slave, one of the new leaders of Tuskegee, “was the first time I ever met Theodore Roosevelt.”

What a wonderful story about Teddy Roosevelt…and his attitude of love and humility…born to wealth…becoming President of these United States...by passing the prejudice of his day.

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Someone has said, “Hate is so powerful an acid, that it destroys the vessel in which it is stored, even more than those upon whom it is poured.”
And love neutralizes this acid called hate and produces kindness and concern and prejudices dies before it…

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We all have stories that could be told about us. Good, bad and indifferent.
How many such stories could be told about you…about me? What kind of stories indeed?
“We love because he first loved us.” (I John 4:19).

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A CHAIN REACTION CALLED LOVE

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One tiny fragile little wrist was tied to a rusty old bedpost with an electric cord. Her body was covered with bruises and her lips were bleeding from being recently battered by her mother’s hand.

This was what the police found when they entered the house and saw Mary Beth’s naked little body trembling in the darkened room.

As they carried her out past her mother and their eyes met the little girl cried out, “Mommy, if I die, then will you love me?”

The little girls’ greatest pain was that she felt she was not loved.

It is most unlikely that if you are a parent you physically abuse your children or your husband or wife but too many do emotionally abuse them with bickering, taking nagging to a new level, finding fault on a regular basis.

To a child, “You are a bad kid…a dumb kid…you are driving me crazy…”

To a wife, “How could you have said that…done that…you are so sloppy…you are driving me crazy….you… To a husband, “Why do always have to…why don’t you…you are a failure…you are driving me crazy…you…

It is a terrible thing if your child or husband or wife often think “Would you finally love me if I died?”

A home can be a heaven or a hell. It can be the loneliest place in the world or a place where it seems the sound of music fills every heart and head.
This is what love does, expressed by word and deed; by patient concern, by an absence of pouting and a presence of powerful prayers, for new ways to show love one to the other.

By just being nice rather than nasty…loving rather than loveless…

What have you promised yourself that you will do or become to better show how much you love your family? How often have you kept these promises or broken them because you were too busy or too impatient or….

Initiate a positive imitation policy.
Be loving and kind and good to others in your family and you may well set up a chain reaction. Do the opposite; be hateful and cruel and no good to others in your family and you may well set up that kind of chain reaction also.
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“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:7)

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CHECK IN WITH YOUR INVOICE

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The little girl wanted to go to the zoo. The father was explaining why he couldn’t tale her. “I have to work on my invoice.”

Finally, she thought she understood. Explaining her dilemma to a girl friend she said, “Daddy can’t take me to the zoo because his conscience is bother him.”

Whether you call it invoice, conscience or talking to your insides while your insides talk to you…when you feel guilt and can’t find forgiveness, it is one of life’s deepest and most painful experiences.

Willaim Elliott in his book THE CURE FOR ANXIETY writes “The man who feels no guilt has never seen God.”

Guilt can cramp a man or woman’s style. Thieves have to go to work, gossips have to go to silence, all kind of sins have to be buried or suffer the consequences.

Indeed, there are two available avenues; damn God and accept the Devil or admit sin and accept forgiveness.

By the first you kill a conscience. By the second you redeem a soul. In short, you rid yourself of your conscience by saying “I don’t care” or avail yourself of God’s love by affirming “God does care.”

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“For I will be merciful and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more.”
Hebrews 8: 12

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DUE DILLIGENCE

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Sir Walter Scott, a prolific historical Scottish novelist once wrote, “I am very ill today with rheumatic headache, an affliction which fills my head with pain, my heart with sadness and my eyes with tears. I worked therefore all this afternoon.”

That’s the kind of diligence, duty and decision, the kind of get-up and go that doesn’t get up and went that can change a life and change the world.

“Human nature,” said Alfred North Whitehead, “loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored, yet insistent.” We all need a constant hope for the highest to reign within.
It is a shame how some make the most of nothing and then build a shrine to its everlasting care.

The Apostle Paul once wrote, “Ye are not your own for ye are bought with a price, therefore, glorify God.” The Greek word for “bought” is AGORADZO, but in Greek it means more than bought. It means, “to purchase for a purpose…to utilize.” ********************************************************************
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